The Order of Things, 33x46”, Oil on canvas, 2016
The origins of the monochrome in modernist painting are to be found in the sublime landscape- clear blue skies, deserts of evacuated form. This painter is surrounded by the world in its infinite variety. He is searching for metaphysical origin and essence, while all around him, scientific taxonomies and magical similitudes arrange the things of the world, establishing an order based on language’s epistemological primacy.