Dimensions: support: 762 x 562 mm
Copyright: © Trevor Bell | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Trevor Bell's "The One from Many" is a striking piece with bold black strokes on a white background. The stark simplicity almost feels like calligraphy. What do you see in this work? Curator: The brushstrokes evoke primal gestures, echoing ancient symbolic forms. Do they suggest natural forms, perhaps abstracted plants or figures, hinting at underlying narratives and connections? Editor: I hadn’t thought of it that way, but I see it now. It's like a memory trying to surface. Curator: Precisely. This piece prompts us to consider how seemingly abstract marks can carry profound cultural and personal significance. Editor: I'll definitely be looking at abstract art differently from now on. Thanks!
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The One from Many 1959 is an early work on paper by the English painter Trevor Bell. Executed in black ink, it consists of roughly painted lines emerging from the lower edge of the paper as if cut off by it, and small, irregular, more densely coloured areas of ink towards the top. Two of the lines emerging from the bottom stretch almost straight upwards, while the right-hand line extends diagonally towards the right edge of the paper before veering back towards the work’s centre.
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