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Platino
Spatiale 1982, 17, 1982 |
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The red structure here may require the word ‘actually’ - beginning with the fact that the picture is actually not a picture but an object. It was initially actually not even a single object, but a part of a continuously growing installation space created by the artist Platino, and given the simple but appropriate title “Red Space 1.” It was essentially the artist’s publicly accessible living quarters and studio in Stuttgart. He lived and worked in it from 1979 to 1986 and it was a space where visitors could also participate.
Accordingly, this red square is actually not really a square - not a finished picture- but a component which the artist intended to transform. The roughly square shape that we see today was only approximately preset by Platino. But what was absolutely determined was the color and materiality of the object. It gives the impression that the red color has completely freed itself from its substrate, in order to exist by and for itself alone. The heavy wrinkles in the shiny paint let us sense the feeling of thick paint layers. This pure, materialized red seems to be graspable.
Platino himself comments on the process of its creation and development:
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