4 trames 22°5, 45°, 67°5, 90° 1969

This is Francois Morellet’s '4 trames 22°5, 45°, 67°5, 90°,' and it's a kind of painting, I guess, made with rigorous straight lines. It's all about layers, these translucent, almost vibrating lines in a grid, like a screen. I'm curious if the red lines were laid down first and the blue added on top, or vice versa. Looking closely, you can almost see the ghost of what's underneath, how the color shifts and shimmers. It feels alive, like it's breathing, even though it’s just a series of lines. This piece has a strange relationship to Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, with their dependence on a set of instructions. But there is something else going on here. Morellet introduces a kind of visual dissonance, where the grid becomes a moiré pattern. Anyway, let's not get too hung up on fixed meanings; this kind of work is more about opening up possibilities, you know?