Untitled (“Run Dog Run”, 1990)

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (the USA).

Enamel on aluminum.

The work is part of a wider series of “Word painting”, which the artist began in the late 1980s. Paintings of this series are the most famous and most commercially demanded creations of Wool. Clear black capital letters on a white background were applied using stencils without intervals, creating a standardized reticulate system. The composition allows you to understand well what words can be read here. The words “Run Dog” resemble children’s exercises for rhythm and rhyme – the artist suggests a new connection between art forms, using “anonymous graffiti aggression”. According to one critic, “word pictures” of Wool “talk a lot without saying a word” and draw your attention with some “meaningless graphic design”.