Untitled 1973

This undated painting by Kuno Gonschior is made of tiny dots of paint sitting on a square canvas. Look at that bare canvas around the edges of the square. I love that it's like the painting is a kind of portal, like a window. I think Gonschior was trying to build up a feeling with a minimal gesture. The paint isn’t thick, instead it's like a mist of colour. What was he thinking when he made it? Maybe about the paintings of Agnes Martin. That little gesture of applying the dots, its gentle repetition, reminds me that being an artist means participating in a long conversation. Artists inspire each other across time. It is a conversation that never ends. It’s about opening ourselves to the work, feeling its effect, and letting it change us in ways we can’t predict.