Sue Callanan

The work, a triptych, draws on Malevich’s works by similar names: Black Square (1915), Red Square (1915) and White on White (1917-8). Founder of the Suprematist Movement, Malevich sought to empty out meaning, instead, using colour to invoke a transcendent state. Each of these squares sat on a white ground.
The work I’ve created for the current show draws on the work of Malevich but queries the extent to which meaning can ever be truly emptied out. I’ve created three 3 dimensional shapes upholstered in vinyl with a white trim (the latter a nod to Malevich’s white ground). The shapes reference a stool seat which might be found in the 50’s when Modernism was absorbed into the mainstream and became a hallmark for contemporary architecture, and its contents.