Cheyney Thompson

Christian Schaernack is a Berlin-based arts journalist who has covered arts since the mid-1990s, including extensive writing for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Preface xi
Passage I. In the /Name/ of Painting 1
Passage II. Gericault--Kippenberger--Thompson 11
Passage III. The "Landlord" Series 23
Passage IV. Grey Paintings: From the Studio (Floor) to the Gallery (Wall) 37
Passage V. Black Paintings: On Facture, and a 'Rite of Passage' 45
Passage VI. Chromachromes 57
Passage VII. The Chromachrome: From Tableau to Dispositif 65
Passage VIII. The World of Robert Macaire 77
Passage IX. A Signature is a Signature...From Mimesis to Metaphor 83
Passage X. Chronochromes (recit): Metaphors of the Gestural 91
Passage XI. The Completed Reference: Pedestals and Drunken Walks, 2012 101
Passage XII. Stochastic Process Paintings 113
Passage XIII. Quantity Paintings 127
Passage XIV. Somewhere Some Pictures Sometiems, 2017 137
Passage XV. Bellona, Rubens, and Cezanne: The Reconstruction of Possible Histories, or History Reconfigured 151
Passage XVI. ABHK, 2019 171
Passage XVII. Recit: From "Cezanne's Doubt" to Schrodinger's Cat and into the "Age of Surveillance Capitalism" ... 183
Coda 193
Acknowledgments 195
Notes 197