Installation View 

This installation presents a collection of canvases by Claude Rutault. Notice the emphasis on the raw materials of painting: the wooden frames, the stretched fabric, and the off-white surfaces. The various shapes—squares, rectangles, circles, and arches—create a dynamic composition, suggesting a visual dialogue between order and randomness. Rutault’s approach is deeply rooted in questioning the conventions of painting. The canvases, presented without traditional imagery, challenge our expectations of what a painting should be. This deconstruction invites us to consider painting not as a window onto the world, but as an object in itself, drawing attention to its physical structure and the processes of its making. The installation challenges fixed notions about art. The artwork exists as a set of instructions, open to re-interpretation. Through this work, Rutault destabilizes the traditional roles of the artist and the artwork, prompting us to consider the boundaries between object, concept, and context. The formal arrangement of the canvases, therefore, functions as a critical engagement with the very definition of art.