Paintings on metal

In this thematic, we present a selection of works on metal, a versatile material with a complex technicality.

Korean painter Ahn Hyun-Ju creates paintings on metal, a medium on which she multiplies techniques to create minimalist abstract works in the tradition of American Minimalism. Minimalism also describes the works of German painter Doris Marten. She builds compositions made from lines of color, thereby exploring the visual effects that create correspondences between light and color.

Metal painting is also a medium for figurative and abstract landscape painting. From the Amazon rainforest to the countryside of Tanzania, painter Calo Carratala reconstructs the landscape by drawing from his direct experience of a place and from the sensations that these places have given him. French painter Frédérique Domergue uses thin sheets of metal which she covers with aluminum panels to evoke landscapes inspired by nature and the seaside.