Maria Taniguchi’s expansive painting project, spanning over a decade and a half, forms the foundation for her large, seemingly muted monochromes. The three paintings presented at the Biennale Arte are part of Taniguchi’s larger project devoted to abstraction. These works exist in an ambiguous realm. Despite being painted surfaces, they take on the gravity of a sculpture as they recline against a wall, creating volume in their propped state. This intentional gesture produces an unstable flux, prompting viewers to perceive them as both image and object, abstraction and representation, sculpture and painting. Taniguchi resists categorisation and inserts figuration into this cumulative project. The artist’s absent figure become present in the painting through labour, time, and scale.
This is the first time that the work of Maria Taniguchi is presented at Biennale Arte.
—Joselina Cruz
