VANTA - Chroma II - NO RESERVE

Chroma


Chroma is a painting series composed of grids of color — each canvas built from a tiled arrangement of soft vertical gradients, every cell its own small chromatic world. Read together, the panels form a single field of shifting hues that moves between warmth and cool, light and shadow, saturation and restraint. The eye drifts across the grid the way it might across a wall of samples, finding rhythm in the repetition and surprise in the variation.


The series draws on a lineage of artists for whom color itself is the subject: Josef Albers and his Homage to the Square investigations of how hues behave against one another, Ellsworth Kelly’s confident chromatic blocks, Gerhard Richter’s Color Charts and their cool taxonomy of pigment, Bridget Riley’s calibrated optical sequences, and Wolfgang Tillmans’ abstract photograms in which color and gradient carry the full weight of the image. Chroma sits inside that conversation — interested less in what color represents than in what it does when placed beside another color, edge to edge.


Each painting is built on canvas at 140×100 cm. The grid is composed of individual gradient fields, each one moving softly from one tone to another within its cell, the transitions blurred so no edge is ever quite hard. Some cells hold tight, almost monochromatic; others stretch across a wider chromatic span. Placed side by side, the gradients begin to talk: a deep wine settling beside a soft blush, a copper meeting a violet, a near-white panel cooling the heat of the one beside it. Close-up, each cell reads as its own small painting; at distance, the whole surface resolves into a shimmering, vibrating field.


Chroma is a series about color as relationship — how a hue is never really itself, but always shaped by what sits next to it, and how a grid of quiet gradients can build into something that hums.


Shipping:
The work is delivered without a frame (professional packaging, rolled in a tube). it can easily be restretched by a professional or on your own, this is also cheaper then the otherwise increased cost of shipping when sending paintings stretched

The measurements indicated are those of the painting stretched and mounted on a frame (The actual
measurements of the canvas are larger to allow it to be mounted on a frame 2-4 cm thick.


Disclaimer:
Process photos included in the listing show studies and works in progress, as well as close up photos of showing the structure of the canvas.