Piet Dieleman
Paintings radiate light themselves, not by shining exuberantly, but by glowing; it’s a dark kind of light, illuminating small places.
Piet Dieleman via michielmorel.nl, 2013
When painting itself is the subject, as is the case with Piet Dieleman (1956, the Netherlands), a radical approach becomes essential. He has chosen to work with strict, self-imposed constraints: six colors in a fixed order. He himself describes them as ‘fantastic tools’ that enable him to find enough disruption to justify the image. It isn’t abstract art as we know it from the modernist tradition, which strove to strike a balance between form and color. This is a more radical, ruthless form of abstraction that is not an end but only a means.
