black with a mount · Casablanca · Grammar of the 1970s
Worked Copper
In the grammar of the Casablanca School · Grammar of the 1970s · Casablanca
- Giclée on 200gsm archival matte, pigment inks
- Printed to order in Europe and posted to you
- Framing is optional, and framed prints arrive ready to hang
About this piece
The school moved off canvas onto copper and hide because those were the materials the country's craftsmen already worked, and because paint on stretched linen was the thing they were arguing with. Curved organic forms in henna and black on a hammered warm ground: matte, tactile, and nothing like an easel painting.
Hammered copper, henna, black
Grammar, not a work
The artists of this movement are still in copyright and none of their paintings are reproduced here. What we take is the grammar — the flat fields, the hard edge, the refusal of the easel — the way a painter takes a manner without taking a picture.
