A minimalist oil painting in which two identical windows on a white wall constitute the entire composition. Their proportions, the space between them, the quality of light coming through them — these are the only variables the painting is permitted to explore.
The decision to use oil rather than acrylic was made because the slow drying time allowed the subtle tonal shifts across the white wall to be blended over several sessions. The windows' glass is the most worked part of the surface.
About the artist
Catalin Vasile works across a wide range of media and scales without feeling that this breadth dilutes any particular practice — he considers the gouache studies on paper and the large oil canvases as part of the same ongoing investigation of light and surface, conducted in different registers. The studies are fast, the canvases slow; both teach him different things about the same problem.
He is based in Galați and has a particular relationship with the light and landscape of the Danube estuary — a quality of luminosity specific to that part of Romania that recurs throughout his work regardless of the subject. He accepts commissions for landscape and interior work.
