STEPHEN ROSENTHAL

Stephen Rosenthal, already active in New York from the second half of the 1960s, has delved from the outset into an investigation of reduction in painting with works on unstretched canvas, examined in successive cycles, all the way to the latest Microcosms shown here. Rosenthal paints on canvas creating; but when the work seems to be finished, a reverse process of elimination begins, using acid on the paintings, almost totally removing what had been done and leaving minimal tracks, balanced between chance and design, memories of what once existed.