About the painting
Not every picture has to fill a wall. This one measures 20 × 20 centimetres and still holds an entire landscape: dark olive green, rusty patches, and just right of centre a pale clearing the eye is reluctant to leave. The surface is grainy, almost tactile. Anyone who knows Imed Ben Tahar’s large formats will find the same patience here in miniature: layer the paint, wait, layer again.
Description
Dark olive green, broken by rusty patches and a pale clearing just right of centre. The surface is grainy, like earth after rain. At only 20 × 20 cm the picture can be held in one hand, and on a shelf beside other small formats it opens up depth at once.
In the room
The painting hangs here at its real size, next to a 210 cm sofa and a person who is 175 cm tall.
