Kadmiumrot - Picadilly 1991

Kuno Gonschior made "Kadmiumrot - Picadilly" with paint, and what feels like sheer repetition. It’s a field of cadmium red, a color I’ve squeezed a lot of from the tube myself, laid down in these almost obsessive little marks. You can see the making so clearly. There’s something really special about how the physical and the emotional meet in this work. The texture is so present, it's like a raised surface of bumps, and the color, that rich cadmium, is so saturated. It's almost hypnotic, but it's the touch, the individual dab of paint, that really gets me. It’s like each one is a tiny little decision, a moment of focus, building up to this intense overall effect. Look closely and you can see it is not perfect; there are slight variations and inconsistencies. Gonschior’s dedication to a single color and a simple gesture, reminds me of the work of Agnes Martin, in the way that the repetition becomes almost meditative. It is less about perfection and more about the act of painting, the conversation between the artist and the canvas, where the ambiguity is part of the beauty.