5. Colour Separations 1973 - 1975

Editor: Here we have Gerd Winner's "5. Colour Separations" from the Tate collection. It's a striking print, almost ghostly in its depiction of a roadside scene. What's your take on its fragmented composition? Curator: Fragmented is spot on! It's like Winner is deconstructing not just the image, but our very perception of space and memory. Each panel offers a slightly different chromatic whisper of the whole. Notice how the mundane becomes almost monumental. Editor: So, is it about finding beauty in the everyday? Curator: Perhaps, but I think it pushes further. It's about revealing the underlying structures of how we see, almost like a painterly algorithm before algorithms were cool. The road is both there and not there. What does that absence evoke for you? Editor: That's interesting. I guess it makes you question what's real and what's just a construct. Curator: Precisely! Winner nudges us to reflect on the fleeting nature of experience and the artifice inherent in representation itself. A journey, literally and figuratively.