Structure du Silence 1983

Aurelie Nemours made this black and white painting, "Structure du Silence", and I can imagine her, brush in hand, carefully placing each geometric shape to build an architecture on the canvas. There’s a real tension between precision and intuition here, isn’t there? I bet she spent ages deciding how each block fits into the next to create a perfect interlocking pattern. It is reminiscent of the Bauhaus movement. I wonder what she felt making this? Does it feel balanced? Quiet, like the title suggests? Painters have always looked to each other, riffing off ideas, pushing and pulling the language of painting in different directions. Even now, I look at Nemours' painting and I'm like, wow, that makes me want to get into the studio! And it makes me think about the architecture of the canvas. Maybe you too.