Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2002IS-0065

Phantasm 1

Fantasma 1

2002 · oil on canvas · 50.5 × 48.5 cm

A view seen vertically from above in which the water becomes the principal form: a cobalt-blue surface opens at the centre like a triangle and extends into emerald towards the right. Around it the banks break into plates of ochre, cream, crimson and grey-violet, cut by a sinuous black band that crosses the canvas horizontally. Below, a second dark blue sheet of water repeats the motif at smaller scale. The paint is thick, with broad strokes and passages dragged with the knife; the landscape is recognisable, but it has already been turned into a composition of patches — hence the title "phantasm".

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Category · Landscapes

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Not documentedThe work is documented — photograph, catalogue, exhibition — but the archive does not record where it is now. That does not mean lost; it means unrecorded.

Exhibited

2002

Related works

From the Phantasms series — the 2002 exhibition at the Ploiești Art Gallery, where he showed more than twenty works under the same name.

• Phantasm 2 · 2002
• Phantasm 3 · 2002
• Phantasm 4 · 2002
• Phantasm at Cornu · 2002
• Phantasm in the Basin · 2002

and 9 more works in the group

See the whole group, to scale →

How to cite

Ion Șinca, „Phantasm 1” (Fantasma 1), 2002. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0065. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/fantasma-1-2002/

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