ART–MIN–HAN

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Gestural Lineages

Fold as meditation

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Fold as meditation

ART–MIN–HAN

Fold as meditation

Index Code:

ART–MIN–HAN

Orgin:

Bia, Hungary / Paris, France

Field Notes:

fold as meditation · repetition as discovery · gesture as structure

Defining Moment:

Early 1950s — fold as meditation; duration became method

Simon Hantaï

(

1922–2008

)

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Hantaï built a world where gesture became repetition.

Folding and unfolding his canvases, he transformed accident into order.

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In his world, the crease is prayer.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Simon Hantaï’s work, this approach appears where folding generates composition.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Simon Hantaï’s work, this approach appears where folding generates composition.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Form separates from representation to prioritize structure and perception.

Post-Minimalism

Minimal systems loosen through process, material, and contingency.

Observartory

Simon Hantaï — Pliage

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Gerhard Richter

image as uncertainty

city as material

In Dialogue

light as graphic plane

vision as movement