Vibrances

In 2010, Peter Stämpfli began a radically new body of work in which he set aside the color and large formats created between 1990 and 2005. The technical and conceptual austerity involved a more intimate reduction of the format. The intense black on the white Vélin d’Arches paper refines an angular geometry that avoids the horizontal and the vertical.

The contrast between the broader forms and the sinuosity and intermittence of the fine, short strokes conveys a sense of movement and vibration, so that each image reflects a snapshot of the deformation or tension produced by a recent vibration, which the artist calls Vibrances. 21 works made between 2010 and 2014 with black acrylic paint on Vélin d’Arches paper were exhibited, measuring 57.5 x 54 cm.