My House III (2000)

Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

Silkscreen in seven colours, printed on custom art paper.

A group of three works is part of Wool’s practice, where he uses large block labels without strict grammar correctness. The artist deconstructs the semantic properties of words that make up phrases and whole sentences. Art critics call such compositions strong in their formal methods. Behind the letters, the viewer sees the possibility of their transformation into different words. As is typical of black-and-white paintings made by Wool using stencils, in this triptych, the edges of the lines reveal small but visually recognizable violations of smooth lines. This is one of the recognizable signs of the artist’s style – he constantly compares the randomness of the image with the strict rigor of the language.