Niele Toroni’s recent exhibition at the Swiss Institute puts seriality on full display in works on waxed fabric, canvas, paper, and site specific installations. Consistently imprinting canvases of the same size by applying paint using a number 50 paintbrush at 30 centimeter intervals over the course of almost fifty years. As a practitioner of “Travail-Peinture”, he confronts established modes of representation and the essence of painting through his mark-making. By rigorously applying paint in a mechanical method, Toroni locates the infinite possibilities that arise from limited means.
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