White canvas folded and fixed on its own raw wooden frame, dismantled and arranged in order of size, with traces of green paint around the edges.

Minimalist with an impression of the unfinished, this work explores the nature of the painting, the creative process and the tension between material and structure. The blank white canvas, both presence and absence, invites reflection on simplicity and incompleteness in art.

In other words, this is a powerful commentary by Franziska Reinbothe, a fascinating woman artist, on painting and the ever-predictable death of the medium.

“In 2015, I started working with a specific white paint as a colour material. This work is one of them. But for various reasons, I didn’t like the colour application in the end (I think because the underlying layer did show through in some places). And I also knew that I couldn’t put any more colours on top of the paint. So I unstretched it, took apart the previously assembled frame, folded it into a compact package and screwed it together. I then simply slid the folded canvas over it and placed it at the front. To summarise. It’s one of my few pictures that stands on the floor.” (Franziska Reinbothe)