The objects in the exhibition are plaster casts. They are quite simply affective renderings and defamiliarised representations of the tiles. The individual module is self-similar; its existence is grounded in the indifference of specimen and series. Its form derives from each subsequent similar or identical object. The modules come in diverse shapes, with variants sometimes differing from each other only in minute details. Some of the modules exhibited are arranged in vertical or horizontal series; in a few instances, several adjoining modules are cast in one piece. Most objects are coated with gouache paint in a dark blue-tinged green. (In Jan van Eyck’s portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, a bluish green mediates the transition from the figure to the depth of the pictorial space. There is a wonderful composition on paper by Nikolai Suetin that consists of black and green rectangles.) In the monochrome reliefs, the shadows they cast on themselves produce an impression of black. Some of the plaster objects are unpainted.

F. P.