Quasi una spirale 2008

Giorgio Griffa made Quasi una spirale with paint, on what looks like raw canvas. It's giving me color wheel meets minimalist geometry. I can imagine Griffa in his studio, quietly working with a kind of gentle precision. He lays down these bands of color, each one slightly off, slightly imperfect. There’s something very human about that—a real contrast to the digital perfection we are so used to seeing these days. The paint is thin, almost translucent, which lets the texture of the canvas peek through. These concentric arcs are a little like musical notation. I'm almost feeling like I can hear the painting. I mean, maybe it’s just me but there is something poetic about how Griffa combines mathematical order with a loose, intuitive sensibility. It reminds me of Agnes Martin, in the way it finds the sublime in the simple. I love how artists are in a constant dialogue, riffing off each other’s ideas across time. Ultimately, painting is a form of embodied expression, embracing ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.