Interwencja (Intervention)

1983

Medium: Acrylic on wood with blue adhesive tape
Dimensions: Wooden panel: 39 7/16 x 37 7/8 x 5 7/16 in. (100.2 x 96.2 x 13.8 cm); Installed dimensions variable
Credit: Purchased jointly by Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago with funds provided by Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange and by the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York by Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc.; The Cynthia Hazen Polsky Fund.

Edward Krasiński used masking tape to extend the gestures of abstract painting beyond the canvas, thereby challenging the boundary between painting and its supporting walls. Krasiński sourced the royal blue adhesive from the commercial world, inserting a household material into the traditional sphere of high art. His playful imposition literally connects art to the world around it.