LaisséePoster con cornice

Laissée - 1994 comes from the folded paintings of Simon Hantai, where crumpled canvas takes the paint and leaves a pattern of soft creases and knots. The marks here read like folds pressed flat, knotted and released across the ground.

A framed poster like this wants a wall that gets side light, so the creases keep their softness through the day. A dark frame against a pale wall lets the pale field hold its edge.

In a dining room, hung on the wall opposite the table, the folded pattern shows itself slowly between courses. You catch a new knot each time you look up.