Large-scale acrylic on canvas by Jean-Charles Kien, featuring a complex black isometric line grid system, exhibited on a brick wall in Shanghai for Swatch.

This graphical proposition called BWL1 is made from black and white only. Each unit of the isometric grid is a 5 cm high triangle whereas the dimension of the canvas are 1,50 x 2,10 m. 

 

In this piece, the SOW is getting more complex: new rules are added to the basic ones, allowing this peculiar design.

 

BWL1 is part of the Swatch Group Art Collections.

BWL1

2016

1,50 x 2,10 m

Acrylic on canvas

Painting

Original

Digital view of a large-scale acrylic on canvas by Jean-Charles Kien, featuring a complex black isometric line grid system, exhibited on a brick wall in Shanghai for Swatch.