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Untitled, by Peter Coles (2021), 2m by 1.2m, chalk dust and oil on panel, Castlebridge Art Museum.
In the Dark
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Untitled, by Peter Coles (2021), 2m by 1.2m, chalk dust and oil on panel, Castlebridge Art Museum.
In the Dark 
December 14, 2021 at 4:57 pm
Here Coles shows us the possibilities that Malevich, for all his vision, could not: again the Suprematist void unmoors the viewer from three-dimensional geometries, again the forced shift of perspective into no-place, but where his predecessor insists on an agreement between vertical and horizontal, Coles abandons the stale perfection of the square and other such structuralist and structuralizing notions on a field which presents both a dimensional disagreement and an intentional orientation (or an orientation of intention?). The work’s titlelessness may also be seen as a reference to and a surpassing of the Suprematist and Constructivist nomenclatures.
December 14, 2021 at 6:08 pm
My thoughts entirely.
December 14, 2021 at 10:07 pm
Thank you for your critique. It would have been even better (and consistent or totalizing) if the picture frame itself is not “the stale perfection of the square [or rectangle]”.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle