Fugue 1969

Edward Landon made this print, Fugue, using a screenprint. It’s full of stacked rectangles in black, white, tan, and with a little stripe of red to keep things lively. The thing that grabs me is how the tan colour seems to bleed slightly into the paper, which makes the whole thing feel soft and approachable. I think about the red line, standing out amongst the rest, and wonder if it's a glitch. What's it doing there? It reminds me of an insistent little note played on a piano. Looking at this work, I’m reminded of the work of Sean Scully. He makes paintings with stripes and rectangles, but unlike Scully’s work which is so obviously hand-painted, this feels like it has been manufactured. Despite this, it’s still a composition in the way that all paintings are - another thing to look at and to feel.