Curatorial notes
Paul Klee made "The singer L as Fioridigli" with paint and line, building up a subtly coloured surface. Klee feels like a kindred spirit; he makes painting look like it's all about thinking. The texture is amazing, a rough, porous surface with layers of earth tones. Look at how he uses line to create the figure, a network of delicate marks that seem to emerge from the background. The singer's face is so present with those glasses, and that hat! This piece is like a conversation with other artists, maybe someone like Guston, who also embraced a kind of playful figuration. Art isn't about answers, but about asking questions and embracing the ambiguity of seeing.
