Series: Loops

In this cycle of paintings I wove red lines following some simple arrangement throughout the whole format. It was the first time I applied line overlaying as until then I had always placed the individual elements and lines onto the surface next to one another. In some paintings the format itself defined the line shapes, elsewhere it was a simulated section of an otherwise infinite structure. Line overlaying generated graded colour values creating a vague illusion of a spatial structure. Areas left unpainted were highlighted by a blue or black contour. I wanted their shapes to stand out instead of acting as merely a neutral background, thus emphasizing their composition while retaining the two-dimensional quality of the painting.
The largest painting used the principle of interweaving horizontal and vertical undulating lines covering the whole pictorial surface in both directions. This principle, which I elaborated further, was applied to a number of other paintings in the future