SU-20 1973

Wojciech Fangor’s SU-20 is a canvas where dreamy crimson bleeds into dusky rose, like sunset on a hazy horizon. I wonder how he achieved this sense of dissolving form—maybe he built up layers of thinned pigment, coaxing them to merge and flow together? I'm thinking about the patience it must have required. There's no bravado here, no frantic brushstrokes—just the quiet, sustained attention to the subtle shifts of hue. Maybe Fangor found a meditative state in the studio, letting the colors guide him toward something just beyond the edge of perception. SU-20 reminds me that painting can be less about assertion and more about receptivity, attuning oneself to the quiet frequencies of color and light. It’s like looking at Rothko or Turrell, but with a warmer, fleshier tone. Fangor invites us into a space of contemplation, where the boundaries between seeing and feeling begin to blur, and the simple act of looking becomes a form of connection.