EMIL LUKAS | SOFT TISSUE

Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

“The accumulation of threads and what they achieve visually, and how the viewer can perceive that accumulation, leads to a really remarkable experience. When you’re up close to those works, you can see that there are thousands of threads in seemingly dozens of colors, and the work is extremely colorful and quite bright. Then if you walk away from the painting, it goes from bright and colorful to a little bit monochromatic to black and white, and that is so hard to understand. But it is that accumulation and distance… The interaction of those two things creates this remarkable physical effect, or perceptual effect, I guess I should say.”

Harry Philbrick in Exh. Cat., New York, Sperone Westwater, Emil Lukas, January – February 2019, p. 13