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A screen of blue-grey acacias on a bank of white slabs, under a golden-ochre sky.

Ion Șinca · Exhibitions 2011, 2016IS-0168

Acacias

Salcâmi

2011 · oil on canvas · 92 × 60 cm

A dense screen of acacias crosses the canvas horizontally, the crowns built from broad slabs of blue-grey, white, grey and reddish-brown accents applied with the knife and overlapping like scales; slender dark trunks descend between them to the ground. At the right two small white houses appear at the foot of the trees. The foreground is a bank of sharply cut white and grey slabs descending to the bottom edge. The sky is a warm golden-ochre surface applied thinly. The warm-cool contrast — blue crowns against a golden sky — is the principal device, and the foliage is entirely transformed into matter.

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Exhibited
2011 · 2016

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The same structure — blue-grey acacias over white slabs — taken up again nine years later, at almost twice the size. These are not two photographs of one work: they are two works.

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Ion Șinca, „Acacias” (Salcâmi), 2011. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0168. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/salcami-2011/

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