Paysage indéfini 1963

This is "Paysage indéfini" by Nono Reinhold, and you can see it’s all about mark-making as a process. The texture in this piece is something else; you can almost feel the scratching and the layering. The colors are muted, mostly grays and browns, but that just makes the surface more alive. There’s this spiral of tiny squares in the middle, and it’s like the whole landscape is swirling around this point. You can see the physicality of the medium – it's like Reinhold was really digging into the plate. Reinhold's work reminds me of Agnes Martin, in the sense of quietness and repetition. Except, where Martin is all about the grid, Reinhold is breaking it apart. This piece embraces the ambiguity of the landscape, it's more about feeling than seeing.