For the Museum Haus Lange, David Reed has conceived a completely new, site-specific work in the form of a single painting.
It runs through all the exhibition spaces and conveys itself to the viewer as a moving, «floating» image that invites him to a kind of cinematographic contemplation.
For the first time in his work, Reed used stencils, partly to integrate painterly gestures from paintings of the 1970s into his current work, partly to stage repetitions of new abstract pictorial motifs. Stencilled motifs were always interwoven with singular gestures; in the process, nodal points of dynamic-spatial depth were created.
Interacting with Mies van der Rohe's architecture and referencing Yves Klein's immaterial space «Le Vide» (1961), Reed created an irritating pictorial panorama of reflections, repetitions and spatial dissolution.