About the painting
A small picture that asserts vastness. Thickly set white forms stand beneath a blue sky that turns grey toward the top, and suddenly there is a horizon, although the format measures only 40 × 30 centimetres. “Die Weite in der Malerei” (Vastness in Painting) was the title of a 2015 exhibition by Imed Ben Tahar at the Kulturzentrum franz.K in Reutlingen. This picture shows in miniature what that can mean: vastness is not a matter of square metres.
Description
Thickly set white forms stand like chalk cliffs or weathered walls under a blue sky that turns grey toward the top. Brown inclusions give the white its weight. At 40 × 30 cm in a horizontal format, it is a small picture that quietly holds the centre on a desk or within a group.
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.
