dé-finition/méthode #261: la peinture sort de sa réserve 1995

Here, we see an installation by Claude Rutault titled "dé-finition/méthode #261: la peinture sort de sa réserve." The chromatic strategy is immediately apparent. The gallery walls are bathed in a uniform mauve, a choice that at once determines and destabilizes the conventional space for art. Rutault intervenes with movable monochrome panels, painted the same mauve as the walls. These panels alter the viewer's spatial experience, creating an active dialogue between the artwork and its context. Rutault's method isn't about creating isolated objects, but about redefining the exhibition space, suggesting an engagement with institutional critique. The monochrome, here, isn't about the absence of color, but the presence of a system. The matching color invites you to consider how the structural elements of display and architecture function together to create meaning. This piece challenges fixed meanings and invites ongoing interpretation.