What is it to paint? The Italian artist Rudolf Stingel has made his medium, painting, the subject and the mode of his work, which is centred on this question. This is the New York gallery owner Paula Cooper, painted by Rudolf Stingel from a 1984 photograph. A diffuse grain, laid like a veil over the entire work, suspends time. The softness of the skin, the fineness of the hair, the texture of the knitting become palpable. Between light and darkness, the work of the paint, visible in the brushstrokes and the thickness of the materials as soon as one approaches the canvas, contradicts the painting's photographic aspect. A few everyday objects are placed around her-two small flowers in a vase in the blurred foreground, glasses, a table set up in the background.
In a monumental painting-three metres high and four metres long-a woman sits with her head against the wall, coolly smoking, lost in her thoughts.
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