Doorkijk in gele muur 1977

Nono Reinhold made this print, Doorkijk in gele muur, and its soft, sandy palette makes me feel like I’m standing inside a building in the Mediterranean. I can imagine Reinhold carefully applying each layer of color to build up the image, a slow accumulation of tones, maybe shifting the blocks slightly each time. It feels so hand-made. You know, looking at that deep blue sky framed by the architecture, I start to wonder what Reinhold was thinking about. Were they trying to capture a specific place, or was it more about evoking a feeling of being grounded and free at the same time? That simple, solid yellow next to the deep purple shadow also reminds me of the early Renaissance painters, who were trying to figure out how to create a believable sense of space. I love how artists keep working with the same problems – like what is space and how do we represent it – over and over again. We’re all just riffing on each other's ideas across time. Painting helps us ask questions and stay open to the answers.