Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2002IS-0076

Phantasm in the Basin

Fantasmă în bazin

2002 · oil on canvas · 92 × 60 cm

Against an almost uniform dark blue ground, a white-pink mass rises from the centre and narrows towards the top into a vertical column, like steam or a jet. At its base the paint opens into thick waves of white, pink and grey, with crimson hollows and black strokes marking stones in the water. The surrounding blue has no horizon and describes neither sky nor bank — it works as a continuous field in which the white form floats. The paint is the thickest in the whole series, raised in relief across the white area; this is the work closest to abstraction among the 2002 "phantasms".

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Category · Studies & compositions

Where it is today

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 1 · 2002
• Phantasm 2 · 2002
• Phantasm 3 · 2002
• Phantasm 4 · 2002
• Phantasm at Cornu · 2002

and 9 more works in the group

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How to cite

Ion Șinca, „Phantasm in the Basin” (Fantasmă în bazin), 2002. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0076. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/fantasma-in-bazin-2002/

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