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VANTA presents Particle II - NO RESERVE, a hand-signed original 140 × 100 cm mixed-media abstract expressionist painting on canvas, created in Austria in 2020+ and sold directly from the artist, shipped rolled without a frame.
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Notice: Delayed shipping due to Holiday for this lot. Estimated shipping 11-13 August!!!
Particle
140x100
Particle is a painting series exploring light as something granular — no longer a smooth field but a scatter of countless small points, each one holding its own tiny charge of color. Each work centers on a soft luminous body that appears to be built out of drifting matter: a cloud of pigment suspended in space, gathering into a dense core and dispersing outward until the individual particles blur into pure atmosphere. The effect sits somewhere between the cosmic and the microscopic — a nebula, a field of static, a slow rain of color caught mid-fall.
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 Yayoi Kusama's obsessive fields of dots and Vija Celmins' quiet, particulate night skies also sits in the background — a lineage of makers interested in the way many small marks can accumulate into a single luminous whole.
The base of each work is built entirely in acrylic paint on canvas, using a custom-built painting contraption of my own design — a setup loosely inspired by old silk-screen equipment. The initial composition is laid down through hand-cut plastic templates in simple geometric shapes — circles, ovals, rectangles — used to place the first fields of saturated color directly onto the canvas. From there the work returns to the same DIY apparatus, where a system of soft brushes moves vertically and horizontally across the surface, blending and refining the painted areas over many mechanical passes until the pigment thins to near-transparency and the white of the canvas beneath begins to glow through.
Once this luminous ground is complete, the particulate layer is built on top in ink — sprayed, stippled, and worked through shifting dotted stencils in many overlapping passes, each stencil moved slightly between applications so the dots vary in size, density, and clustering. The result is a granular skin of ink suspended above the glowing color field beneath, a scatter of matter caught in the light. 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 original contemporary abstract painting on canvas.
Particle is a series about light as substance — color broken down into its smallest visible units, and the quiet way a cloud of tiny points can hold together into something that glows.
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.
Notice: Delayed shipping due to Holiday for this lot. Estimated shipping 11-13 August!!!
Particle
140x100
Particle is a painting series exploring light as something granular — no longer a smooth field but a scatter of countless small points, each one holding its own tiny charge of color. Each work centers on a soft luminous body that appears to be built out of drifting matter: a cloud of pigment suspended in space, gathering into a dense core and dispersing outward until the individual particles blur into pure atmosphere. The effect sits somewhere between the cosmic and the microscopic — a nebula, a field of static, a slow rain of color caught mid-fall.
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 Yayoi Kusama's obsessive fields of dots and Vija Celmins' quiet, particulate night skies also sits in the background — a lineage of makers interested in the way many small marks can accumulate into a single luminous whole.
The base of each work is built entirely in acrylic paint on canvas, using a custom-built painting contraption of my own design — a setup loosely inspired by old silk-screen equipment. The initial composition is laid down through hand-cut plastic templates in simple geometric shapes — circles, ovals, rectangles — used to place the first fields of saturated color directly onto the canvas. From there the work returns to the same DIY apparatus, where a system of soft brushes moves vertically and horizontally across the surface, blending and refining the painted areas over many mechanical passes until the pigment thins to near-transparency and the white of the canvas beneath begins to glow through.
Once this luminous ground is complete, the particulate layer is built on top in ink — sprayed, stippled, and worked through shifting dotted stencils in many overlapping passes, each stencil moved slightly between applications so the dots vary in size, density, and clustering. The result is a granular skin of ink suspended above the glowing color field beneath, a scatter of matter caught in the light. 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 original contemporary abstract painting on canvas.
Particle is a series about light as substance — color broken down into its smallest visible units, and the quiet way a cloud of tiny points can hold together into something that glows.
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
Particle II - NO RESERVE
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Austria
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
140 cm
Width
100 cm
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
