Back and forth: pneumatic anadrome [serial painting 1]

Abstract

"Serial paintings" are a series of works highlighting the role of the canvas - or more generally the support of the painting - in the construction of the final form. "Back and Forth - Pneumatic Anadrome" is the first work in the series. In it, a string of coloured beads is pushed back and forth between two spiralling "canvases" using compressed air. Without rearranging the order of the beads, the string is forced to coil alternatively into one or the other spiral: this folding and unfolding reveals in turn images or text with opposing meanings or connotations. Each image has to be destroyed in order to create the other; this cyclic process of creation and destruction is purposefully revealed and triggered by the curiosity of the public.