Breathing Paintings - Voids of Simon Hantai

Pliages

of

Simon Hantai

When Hantai unfettered the plied canvases from bondage and freed them to breathe, they revealed unexpected images of patterns and surprising arbitrary shapes...

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Sculptural Paintings of Simon Hantai

Panses

sculptural paintings

of

Simon Hantai

"Carving into colour, it might itself be understood as a quasi-sculptural process... the carefully modelled central figure stands out powerfully from the painting giving 

the illusion of three-dimensionality... the painted areas' surprisingly sculptural masses are forms as if cut out against the nonpainted far more than internally cut or interrupted by the nonpainted"

Simon Hantai's Meuns

Exhibition Catalog

Voids of Simon Hantai

Meuns 

of

Simon Hantai

Contrast between painted and nonpainted -

presence and absence...