Vibration Red/Green/Blue 1970

Kuno Gonschior made Vibration Red/Green/Blue with paint. You know, standing here looking at this painting, I start thinking about what it must have been like for Gonschior in the studio. All that red, a field of it, like a thought extending outward in all directions. And then these dots of yellow, carefully placed in horizontal lines. Maybe he was interested in visual perception and after-images? He was part of a generation of German artists exploring the optical effects of colour, so it's highly likely. I wonder if he worked flat on the wall or down on the floor. Did he use a brush, or a stencil, or a squeegee? Those yellow dots almost look printed. To make something like this requires such repetition, and the surface is so smooth it almost disappears. Did he lose himself in the repetition, in the hypnotic vibration of the colours? All those dots – they remind me a little of the pointillists, like Seurat, and the way he painstakingly created images out of tiny strokes of paint.