Peinture Dans L’espace 1934

This painted sculpture, Peinture Dans L’espace, was made by Yervand Kochar. You can see how the colours blend and bleed into each other, like watercolors fighting to define a shape. The material itself is fascinating - it’s not just paint, but also metal, shaped and layered. Look at how the light reflects off the surface; the shiny parts almost seem to push forward, while the darker, matte areas recede. It’s like Kochar is sculpting with light and shadow. The faces emerge and disappear within this metallic landscape. I wonder what tools he used, probably something industrial, that allowed him to meld these materials so seamlessly. It’s like Picasso's Cubism, but taken into the third dimension, so you can walk around it. Like an ongoing conversation between painting and sculpture. It’s not just one story, it’s all the possible stories, all at once.