Echoes of a Concrete Lullaby
“I began with the headlights. Two chrome rounds staring straight ahead, and above them someone who has closed her eyes: it is the car keeping watch, not h…
€2,400 — Le Yack
“I began with the headlights. Two chrome rounds staring straight ahead, and above them someone who has closed her eyes: it is the car keeping watch, not her. The rest of the work was holding the yellow of the neon without letting it turn warm. The white shirt is the only part of the canvas it does not quite reach; I was set on that. An underground car park has no hour, no window, no season — in principle, no one sleeps there. She sleeps there all the same, or pretends to, her head thrown back on bodywork that has kept the engine’s warmth. I do not know whether it is the start of the evening or the end, and I do not think it matters much. What I wanted to paint is the place where you stop wh…
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