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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 39.4x27.6in
About this artwork
This 100x70 cm artwork depicts for me the favorite hour, The Sunrise just before the first light
C 12 is part of the C art series, an ongoing exploration within my FLY method, a practice grounded in the dialogue between deliberate action and the unexpected merging of contradicting materials. Rather than imposing a fixed composition, I set conditions in which matter, gravity, oxidation, and time… interact, allowing the painting to evolve through emergence.
The work's surface bears traces of this evolution. Mineral-like textures, ruptures, and layered sediments suggest geological processes unfolding over long durations. At the painting’s center, a deep blue-violet field forms a gravitational presence around which fragments of rust, red, and earth tones appear to drift and settle. The visual structure evokes multiple scales simultaneously: an oceanic vortex, an aerial landscape, or a cosmic formation.
Ted Barr
Israel
Credentials
- Major permanent collection
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Residency Participant
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
« The physical body ends in the skin, the mind reaches the stars. »
At the core of my work is industrial cold tar— carrying geological memory. Tar absorbs light, slows movement, and resists clarity, introducing friction into the visual field. When combined with oil, gesso, and pigment, it generates a continuous negotiation between opacity and luminosity, between what is buried and what is revealed.
These dense, absorptive surfaces function as active fields—capable of retaining, resisting, and transforming the materials brought into contact with them. Each work evolves through sequences of action and reaction, of revealing and concealing. The surface becomes an archive of gestures, material events, and temporal shifts.
Central to my work is the notion of layering as a structural condition. Each painting develops through successive strata of material interactions: absorption, oxidation, sedimentation, and reactivation.