About the painting
From many grey layers a small white form emerges, a house if you like. Beneath it lies a dark, warm ground like wet earth. In 2020, the year this picture was made, an exhibition by Imed Ben Tahar at FORUM Bodelshausen was called “Verweilen”, which means to linger, and the word suits this painting. There is little colour and a great deal of surface, and that is exactly why you stop. The light in the room paints a different picture on it every day.
Description
From grey, many times overpainted layers a small white shape emerges that can be read as a house. The ground below is dark and warm, almost like wet earth. The picture lives on restraint: hardly any colour, but plenty of surface for the light in the room to work on. 60 × 80 cm.
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.
