Functional Paintings
2014
123 x 46.5 centimeters
The Functional Paintings are a new body of works subtly altering the gallery's space. To work the plywood into its concave shape, ESTEP has used the Thonet method, steaming the wood in order to manipulate it into the desired form. This concave wood is then covered in canvas, and painted with a color matching the raw canvas itself, applied in two coats. The 'functionality' of these paintings is in fact to serve as an element creating distance between the soap installation and the wall. Rather than being a purely aesthetic element, these paintings modify the very architecture of the space as well as the spectator's view of and relation to it.
