VANTA - Bloom II - NO RESERVE
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VANTA's Bloom II - NO RESERVE is an original mixed media abstract expressionist painting, 140 x 100 cm, created in 2020+, hand signed, from Austria, sold directly from the artist, in excellent condition.
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Bloom
Bloom is a painting series exploring the soft opening of color — the way a hue can seem to unfold from a quiet center and spread outward, petal-like, into the space around it. Each work centers on a radiant field of pigment that appears to swell gently against the canvas, a body of color caught in the act of opening.
The works draw on James Turrell's investigations of perceptual space, 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.
Each work is made from 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.
A heavy protective varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface.
Bloom is a series about opening — the quiet moment a color unfolds from its center, and the soft, atmospheric warmth of a hue caught mid-expansion.
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.
Bloom
Bloom is a painting series exploring the soft opening of color — the way a hue can seem to unfold from a quiet center and spread outward, petal-like, into the space around it. Each work centers on a radiant field of pigment that appears to swell gently against the canvas, a body of color caught in the act of opening.
The works draw on James Turrell's investigations of perceptual space, 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.
Each work is made from 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.
A heavy protective varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface.
Bloom is a series about opening — the quiet moment a color unfolds from its center, and the soft, atmospheric warmth of a hue caught mid-expansion.
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
Bloom 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+
