Joseph Marioni Lot n° 2

Joseph Marioni Green Painting 2006 Acrylic on canvas 117 x 123 cm. Signed, dated and titled 'GREEN PAINTING Jos MARIONI 2006' and signed and dated 'JOSEPH MARIONI PAINTER 2006' on the folded canvas and with material, dimensions and work number. Provenance Wade Wilson Art, Houston/Texas; private collection, USA Exhibitions Mill Valley/California 2016 (George Lawson Gallery), Radical, Monochrome Paintings from the Goodman-Duffy Collection (on original shipping crate with label). Joseph Marioni is not only a painter, but also an art theorist who sees his own form of painterly expression - in which he creates monochrome, completely non-objective paintings by applying various layers of paint while avoiding a personal signature - as radical painting. "Radical painting is intensely concerned with the internal structural relationship between paint mass and support. The experience of this relationship is essentially a singular and personal act of the viewer. In this, the viewer is involved in action - not in the interpretation of a likeness, but rather in the constitution of meaning. [...] Radical painting sees its role neither in reproducing myths or legends in a representational or abstract way, nor in linking the past with the present through mythologically or socially mediated signs and symbols. This is the role of images. Images are secondary, measured against the essence of painting. Radical painting is an object of sensual perception, not a vehicle for passing on information," the artist writes in his programmatic text "Outside the Cartouche," which he wrote together with the artist and curator Günter Umberg (Joseph Marioni/Günter Umberg, Outside the Cartouche, On the Question of the Viewer in Radical Painting, Munich 1986, p.10).