Lot BB

Roula Partheniou’s practice employs the replica as a tool for evoking the experience of perception through the deconstruction and contemplation of common everyday objects. Rendered in acrylic paint on wood, compositions exist in three dimensions functioning as tromp l’oeil in the round. Yielding to found formal properties such as shape, size, pattern and colour, each composition is led by the constraints inherent to the object itself, while drawing out visual puns, alternate readings, and revelling in material play. Tape Stack serves as a typological study of a familiar form while also reading as a formal 3-dimensional colour field painting.