Untitled n°43

Untitled n°43 marks a moment of pure expressive release within the artist's practice. Against an unbroken black ground, an ultramarine blue is set free — applied in wide, looping gestures that climb across the canvas with the energy of a single uninterrupted breath.

The brushwork is unmistakably physical. Each arc carries the weight of the arm that drew it; each overlap records the moment in which the hand returned, insisted, deepened. Nothing is preparatory. Nothing is restrained. The painting captures the body of the gesture in the precise instant of its making.

The composition is openly virile, in the oldest sense of the word: it carries the weight of presence, of contact, of having been made by a body that knew exactly where to press. Nothing apologizes. Nothing softens itself in advance.

And yet, beneath the force, an unmistakable lyricism. The blue chosen here is not aggressive but luminous — a regal, almost spiritual ultramarine that lifts the painting above mere expression toward something closer to song. The black holds it; the blue sings against it.

The work proposes a different register of beauty: not the slow dissolution of the artist's other paintings, but the bright, undeniable affirmation of a single color willing to take the entire space upon itself.