Thomas Arnolds, 0 13, 2014
, oil on canvas, 115 x 90 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne

Thomas Arnolds works in self-contained series which are concerned with very different themes, examining and analysing painting processes and placing the act of painting itself at the forefront as the true subject of his pictures. While a principal focus of his earlier groups of works is primary colours (“Küchenbilder”, 2008-2009) or the colour pink (“Grad” series, 2011) in this group he enters into a dialogue with the colour white. In 2014 he completed more than twenty monochrome paintings, in which the finest textures, forms and structures are articulated from a single colour with a richly faceted substance.

Thomas Arnolds, MARB7, viii, 2015
, Oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm
Kollitsch Collection