VANTA - Nimbus I - NO RESERVE
10
days
01
hour
01
minute
04
seconds
 | €1 |
|---|
Catawiki Buyer Protection
Your payment’s safe with us until you receive your object.View details
Trustpilot 4.4 | 139016 reviews
Rated Excellent on Trustpilot.
VANTA Nimbus I - NO RESERVE, a hand-signed original contemporary abstract painting in mixed media on cotton canvas, 140 x 100 cm, created in 2020+ in Austria, sold direct from the artist, delivered unframed and rolled in a tube, in excellent condition.
AI-assisted summary
Description from the seller
Nimbus
Nimbus is a painting series exploring the soft ring of light that seems to gather around a luminous form — the quiet halo of color that surrounds a saturated core, hovering at the threshold between object and atmosphere. Each work centers on a radiant field of pigment that appears to give off its own surrounding glow, a body of color wrapped in the softer light it casts around itself.
The works are in conversation with James Turrell's investigations of perceptual space, and draw on the chromatic fields of Mark Rothko, the saturated immersions of Yves Klein, the atmospheric installations of Olafur Eliasson, the pigment work of Anish Kapoor, the color meditations of Josef Albers, and the soft gradients of Wolfgang Tillmans' abstract photograms — artists for whom color, edge, and transition carry the weight that line and form do elsewhere. Something of Dan Flavin's fluorescent geometries and Robert Irwin's perceptual light works also sits quietly in the background — a lineage of makers interested in light as a material in its own right, alongside a broader modern design sensibility rooted in Bauhaus color theory and Scandinavian minimalism.
Each canvas is worked with fine art acrylic paint on cotton canvas, laid in thin, vibrant fields. A wide brush is drawn across the surface in a single, repeated motion until the pigment thins to near-transparency, allowing the white of the canvas beneath to glow through. Under certain lighting the paintings stop reading as paint entirely and seem lit from within, taking on an almost luminous, lamp-like quality that shifts throughout the day. A heavy protective varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface — an archival finish suited to long-term collection and display in contemporary interiors, whether in a private home, a design-forward space, or a gallery setting.
Signed contemporary abstract painting on canvas — a quiet, atmospheric work at home in minimalist, mid-century modern, or contemporary design environments.
Nimbus is a series about the light around light — the soft aureole that a color casts into its own surroundings, and the quiet way a hue can hold its own atmosphere, glowing gently at the edge of itself.
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.
Nimbus
Nimbus is a painting series exploring the soft ring of light that seems to gather around a luminous form — the quiet halo of color that surrounds a saturated core, hovering at the threshold between object and atmosphere. Each work centers on a radiant field of pigment that appears to give off its own surrounding glow, a body of color wrapped in the softer light it casts around itself.
The works are in conversation with James Turrell's investigations of perceptual space, and draw on the chromatic fields of Mark Rothko, the saturated immersions of Yves Klein, the atmospheric installations of Olafur Eliasson, the pigment work of Anish Kapoor, the color meditations of Josef Albers, and the soft gradients of Wolfgang Tillmans' abstract photograms — artists for whom color, edge, and transition carry the weight that line and form do elsewhere. Something of Dan Flavin's fluorescent geometries and Robert Irwin's perceptual light works also sits quietly in the background — a lineage of makers interested in light as a material in its own right, alongside a broader modern design sensibility rooted in Bauhaus color theory and Scandinavian minimalism.
Each canvas is worked with fine art acrylic paint on cotton canvas, laid in thin, vibrant fields. A wide brush is drawn across the surface in a single, repeated motion until the pigment thins to near-transparency, allowing the white of the canvas beneath to glow through. Under certain lighting the paintings stop reading as paint entirely and seem lit from within, taking on an almost luminous, lamp-like quality that shifts throughout the day. A heavy protective varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface — an archival finish suited to long-term collection and display in contemporary interiors, whether in a private home, a design-forward space, or a gallery setting.
Signed contemporary abstract painting on canvas — a quiet, atmospheric work at home in minimalist, mid-century modern, or contemporary design environments.
Nimbus is a series about the light around light — the soft aureole that a color casts into its own surroundings, and the quiet way a hue can hold its own atmosphere, glowing gently at the edge of itself.
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
Nimbus I - NO RESERVE
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Austria
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
140 cm
Width
100 cm
Style
Contemporary
Period
2020+
