[title not known] 1970

Curator: Here we have an untitled work by Blinky Palermo, part of the Tate Collections. Its approximate dimensions are 596 by 599 millimeters. Editor: It’s strikingly simple. That almost aggressive green triangle dominates the white space. Curator: Palermo, active in a postwar Germany grappling with identity, often used geometric forms to explore the boundaries of painting itself. The starkness can be read as a deliberate break from tradition. Editor: Yes, and the materiality is interesting. You can almost see the process, the layers or application—it avoids perfection. The green feels manufactured, industrial somehow. Curator: Absolutely. Considering Germany's postwar reconstruction, even color and form become signifiers of a society rebuilding. Editor: The rawness resonates. It feels…unfinished, almost defiant against notions of high art. Curator: Indeed, Palermo’s work allows us to confront the construction of meaning and the politics inherent in abstraction. Editor: It makes you think about not just what is there, but what’s absent, what’s left out of the frame of reference.