Dimensions: unconfirmed: 610 x 457 mm
Copyright: © Martin Creed | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Martin Creed's Work No. 1104 from the Tate collection, a stack of painted bars. It’s deceptively simple, almost childlike, but something about it makes me pause. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It’s interesting how Creed challenges our expectations of what constitutes art. He makes us consider the role of the artist, the gallery, and ultimately, the viewer, in ascribing meaning. Is it a painting or a statement about painting? Editor: So, it's less about the visual experience and more about the conceptual framework? Curator: Precisely. It provokes a dialogue about value, intention, and the very definition of art within the contemporary art world. Editor: That definitely shifts my perspective on the work. Thanks! Curator: My pleasure! I find it fascinating how art can be both visually simple and conceptually complex.
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Work No.1104 2011 consists of six thick horizontal rectangular strokes of deep opaque pink acrylic paint applied across a commercially prepared and unframed canvas. The bands of paint appear as though they are stacked on top of each other, and narrow incrementally in width from bottom to top so as to form a ziggurat shape. The bottom stroke spans the entire width of the canvas. All of the white ground has been left exposed around the painted shape. The colour has been applied from left to right in a single layer of uniform thickness, with a set of flat brushes reducing in breadth from bottom to top (13 cm, 10 cm, 8 cm, 6.5 cm, 5 cm and 4 cm). The artist’s signature and the date (‘Martin Creed 2011’) is written in pencil on the reverse top edge of the canvas.
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