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SILVER Seller in Alpes-Maritimes, France
A seminal work by Bernard Aubertin from the iconic Tableau Clous series, created in 1969, representing one of the most radical and conceptually rigorous statements of post-war European avant-garde art. The composition is formed by evenly driven metal nails fixed into a wooden panel and entirely covered with a saturated red acrylic surface. The resulting structure establishes a strict rhythmic grid in which the conventional distinction between painting and relief, surface and volume, is fundamentally dissolved. The rejection of the painterly brushstroke is central to Aubertin’s practice. The artist replaces subjective gesture with an industrial, repetitive act, pursuing the absolute depersonalisation of authorship. Light, shadow and depth between the nails become active compositional elements, while the red colour functions not as an emotional accent but as an absolute field in which form is absorbed. The austere black frame reinforces the sculptural presence of the work and intensifies the optical immersion into its pulsating textured surface.
ID: 103387-1788993059-164490
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