Art Gallery Of Ontario
15. Reverse Night Sky #4
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:01:44
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Nancy Lim: Celmins began making permutations of the Night Sky in 2000, reversing the color schema of her Night Skies. So instead of white stars on a black background, she did the opposite: black stars painted onto a white field. Vija Celmins: So it has such a different, different space. I don't think it's a very object-like painting anymore. The space is much more ambiguous. You can maybe go into it a little bit. It's a little dreamier. Gary Garrels: The Reverse Night Skies also allow a wonderful little bit of color to come into the work. And they have a kind of sense of hovering presence, of something that is more ethereal, more indeterminate, more open. Vija Celmins: It's like a new set of things for me to try to solve. So I emphasized the edges to emphasize a little bit that I know about the restrictions of this space. That it's not quite an object, but sort of made into –like let's not go and dream out to the walls. Let's stop here. My whole career, I have gone between object, image of object,