RITA ACKERMANN – FIRE BY DAYS
2012-08-27‘Fire by Days’, a title inspired by French poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte’s ‘Vacancy in Glass’, began as an accidental spill of paint on the artist’s studio floor, which Ackermann mopped up using a Hungarian fire safety poster.
‘These paintings came to me from, or as, an accident: suddenly the forms and shapes of hastily cleaning up a mess of paint on a surface suggested something that wasn’t a figure or a face, but rather both, or abstract. This is how the first ‘Fire by Days’ images arose. I had no intention to make this picture. It was an accident.’
‘As Paul Virilio once said, “Sublimation of the hunt…the course of painting imposes a cleared surface, a sublimation of war”. The speed of the action demanded a pure surface in which I found the perfect image. To roll in complete freedom and depth in the desert; this is far more exciting than passing through a delimited course.’ Rita Ackermann, July 2012.
Opposite – Fire by Days The Fool II, 2012
Exhibition runs from September 18th to November 3rd, 2012
Hauser & Wirth
196A Piccadilly
London
W1J 9DY
