tim allen

I have been waiting for Tim Allen’s exhibition ever since reading an interview with him in the Turps Banana Magazine. He claimed there that the most radical thing an abstract painter can do is white drips on canvas. It made me laugh, because it was an actual funny pretentious joke since you can’t make the background drip init.
The day I went to the exhibition was my 5th attempt to visit Turps which is open exclusively on Fridays and Saturdays on the 1st floor of a social housing estate.
There were mainly drips and stripes. The drips in the heart of the first painting were not only white. They were also upside down! Definitely the most radical thing I have seen. Total gravitational mindfuck. Underneath, the wood grainer stripes were making hypnotic circles in acid colours on top of other colours, yet it was impossible to identify them. There were surely blues, greens, reds and yellows but because of the wood grainer induced layering the effect was very blurry forcing the spectator possible to look at the colours only in interaction with each other.
The second painting had many islands of black and yellow drips and here the stripes came both on top and bottom. The strategy used was pretty much the some but as if Tim Allen applied a different algorithm for pattern making using the same structure but different colours. Still, the show was great and the use of colour was definitely unusual.