VANTA - Zenith I - NO RESERVE

Zenith
Zenith is a painting series exploring the highest point of light — the moment a color reaches its full intensity, holding steady at the top of its own arc before beginning to soften. Each work centers on a radiant field of pigment suspended at its peak, a body of color caught at the still point where light is at its most complete.
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.

Zenith is a series about the peak — the quiet moment at the top of light's arc, when a color holds its full weight in stillness before beginning to soften into what comes next.

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.