VANTA - Chroma VII - NO RESERVE
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VANTA presents Chroma VII - NO RESERVE, a 140 × 100 cm mixed media abstract painting sold direct from the artist, hand signed, original edition from Austria and dated 2020+, in excellent condition.
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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.
Seller's Story
VANTA is a young Austrian artist whose practice is defined less by a signature subject than by a restless, almost obsessive drive to experiment across mediums.
Painting, mixed media, sculptural experiments, and material tests all move through the studio in parallel — each new series arriving as the answer to a specific question about how far an idea can be pushed before it becomes something else entirely.
Based in Vienna, VANTA has exhibited at some of the city's most prominent contemporary art events, including Viennacontemporary and the Parallel Vienna art fair, alongside international presentations at Budapest Contemporary and Contemporary Istanbul.
Stylistically the work refuses to sit still: bold, high-contrast black-and-white abstraction sits alongside figurative anatomical oil paintings, quiet color field compositions, atmospheric gradients, and fluid ink works — bodies of work that at first glance appear to belong to different artists entirely, yet share a common thread: the pursuit of a very specific image held in the mind, and the search for the exact material process that will bring it into the world.
Rather than settling into a recognizable style, VANTA treats each series as its own self-contained inquiry. One body of work might explore the threshold where pigment dissolves into pure luminosity; another might build dense fields of horizontal color through hand-cut stencils and layered acrylic; another might turn toward the human figure in oil, or dissolve into the loose, unpredictable gestures of ink.
What binds them is the process itself — the discipline of chasing an idea from imagination toward surface, and the willingness to invent whatever technique that pursuit demands.
At the center of the practice is a simple, stubborn question: how close can a made object come to the thing first pictured in the mind? Each series is another attempt at an answer.
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.
Seller's Story
VANTA is a young Austrian artist whose practice is defined less by a signature subject than by a restless, almost obsessive drive to experiment across mediums.
Painting, mixed media, sculptural experiments, and material tests all move through the studio in parallel — each new series arriving as the answer to a specific question about how far an idea can be pushed before it becomes something else entirely.
Based in Vienna, VANTA has exhibited at some of the city's most prominent contemporary art events, including Viennacontemporary and the Parallel Vienna art fair, alongside international presentations at Budapest Contemporary and Contemporary Istanbul.
Stylistically the work refuses to sit still: bold, high-contrast black-and-white abstraction sits alongside figurative anatomical oil paintings, quiet color field compositions, atmospheric gradients, and fluid ink works — bodies of work that at first glance appear to belong to different artists entirely, yet share a common thread: the pursuit of a very specific image held in the mind, and the search for the exact material process that will bring it into the world.
Rather than settling into a recognizable style, VANTA treats each series as its own self-contained inquiry. One body of work might explore the threshold where pigment dissolves into pure luminosity; another might build dense fields of horizontal color through hand-cut stencils and layered acrylic; another might turn toward the human figure in oil, or dissolve into the loose, unpredictable gestures of ink.
What binds them is the process itself — the discipline of chasing an idea from imagination toward surface, and the willingness to invent whatever technique that pursuit demands.
At the center of the practice is a simple, stubborn question: how close can a made object come to the thing first pictured in the mind? Each series is another attempt at an answer.
Details
Artist
VANTA
Sold with frame
No
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Chroma VII - NO RESERVE
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Austria
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
140 cm
Width
100 cm
Style
Abstract
Period
2020+
