Untitled (2009)

The Tate Gallery, London (the UK).

Enamel and screenprint on paper.

Since the early 2000s, Christopher Wool has often been using a computer. He uses photographic images of his paintings, cutting and rearranging parts to create a new composition. Then it is made as silk-screen printing on large sheets of paper, in such a way that the grayscale printing grid replaces the fluidity of the original marks, and sometimes they are interspersed (as in this work) with dots, spots and smears of enamel paint. Technically, this large abstract painting was created by spraying paint, partially wiping it off the surface before the base got saturated. Keeping the outline of the picture, layers of spray paint form a kind of ghostly trail. Wool partially returns to the style of abstract expressionism in these works.