I was looking through artworks from Vienna on Artforum and came across a guy named Rudi Stanzel. During his two month residency at the Ningbo Museum of Art he developed an unusual combination of materials for his abstract black white and gray images. He took strips of very thin handmade rice paper that were painted with white acrylic and then dipped in Indian inc and applied them to canvas. The affect were vertical and horizontal lines generated by this process that in a way create a very heavy looking image yet in another sense can appear to be lighter than air. There's intense suspension in a way, maybe portraying how he felt in this random town two hundred miles south of Shanghai.

Autumn Oser