Kazmir Malevich has always been an idol and had influence over a lot of my artistic and photographic practice. His revolutionary Suprematism theories and practice helped redefine ideas of how we see and experience art. He was the first person disregard everything but form. His incredibly minimal paintings were the first of their kind and opened up ideas for many of the great modernists since. I wanted to use some of Malevich’s work and appropriate just to start ask the question of what are we really looking at. This particular painting ‘Black Square and Red Square’ is one of my favourite pieces by the artist. Despite it being created from just two shapes and three colours some how it seem so considered. If the titled square was just titled a few more degrees would this piece still work so well?. I decided that it should not be me intervening with the work but instead let photoshop manipulate this piece all on its own. I repeated the process (expanding the canvas and deleting the blank space with content aware) five times and got very different results. Each time a new piece of art was created and each time a new sense of character distorted this three colours and two shapes. Instead of looking at work by Malevich we see a strange hyper reality of a Malevich painting.
