Art Gallery Of Ontario
16. A Painting in Six Parts
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:01:45
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Gary Garrels: In some cases, Celmins spends years working on a single work. It goes through a long process of looking, changing, looking again. Thinking about it, remembering. A relationship develops, I think, between Celmins and the work so that it becomes a very living experience. Vija Celmins: I had done this little tiny painting in 1986. The woman who owned the painting died and I got the painting back, which hardly ever happens, which is so great. Nancy Lim: She hadn't made paintings of the ocean in a really long time. Vija Celmins: So sometimes you see a work you've done a long time ago and you forgot that maybe it was, kind of had some terrific qualities to it. Uh, but I had it in my studio and I thought, “Oh my gosh! What a great image, a complicated image.” I was like almost 30 years older. And I wanted to see if I could do it again. So I did it again. So this work is the same image done with a totally different kind of beginning every time. Different colors, different time, different age.