Newman. B. | #soloshow at Galleria28, Timisoara. #sorinneamtu #performance #painting #writingonthewall #barnettnewman #textinpainting
Untitled - 2020, 250x146 cm, oil on woodenboard | Newman. B. | #soloshow at Galleria28, Timisoara. #sorinneamtu #untitled #oiloncanvas #performance #painting #writingonthewall #barnettnewman #textinpainting #abstractpainting #abstractmodern #quotes #quoting #arthistory #modernart #modernarthistory #citation #postwarart #minimalpainting #monochromatic #bluepainting
Newman. B. | #soloshow at Galleria28, Timisoara. #sorinneamtu #performance #painting #writingonthewall #barnettnewman #textinpainting
Newman. B. | #soloshow at Galleria28, Timisoara. #sorinneamtu #performance #painting #writingonthewall #barnettnewman #textinpainting
Newman. B. | #soloshow at Galleria28, Timisoara. #sorinneamtu #performance #painting #writingonthewall #barnettnewman #textinpainting
In some of these notebooks, I also find texts. Sometimes written by me, sometimes texts I transcribe from interviews with artists I follow. Looking for appropriate pages for the proposed project, I realized that two paragraphs from an interview with Barnett Newman were more suitable than any drawing. There are not many filmed interviews with him. I liked so much one that I found around 2017-2018, that I transcribed it entirely. The idea of copying / faithfully enlarging drawings from notebook pages on the white wall has now turned into transcribing text on the wall.
Newman. B. | #soloshow at Galleria28, Timisoara. #sorinneamtu #performance #painting #writingonthewall #barnettnewman #textinpainting
These are B. Newman’s words, which I only select and borrow, but when I write them they become to a certain extent mine, too. For a performative situation, I had to establish some coordinates and a direction for my approach: a text written relatively quickly with a brush, as if by dictation, respecting rules borrowed from calligraphy, which in current writing I never take into account. Necessary here are the pagination, the height of the lines, the ratio between the brush's thickness and the character's size, and, not least, the emphasis on the line's path from top to bottom.
