Piccinelli evokes the passage from winter to spring in this work. The textures and shades present in the 2 squares refer to the plant elements at the end of winter. The projection of green acrylic ink (almost fluorescent) evokes the first shoots of the new season and all the effervescence of spring. The composition is balanced between the geometric structure and the informal and free pictorial dimension.By experimenting with a fundamental and archaic pictorial gesture; devoid of any ostentatious virtuosity but which does not exclude the jubilation provided by chromatic sparkles; Claude Viallat sets himself the goal of rediscovering the “origins of painting”. Or to quote the artist: "I am not learning painting; it is she who teaches me what it is".

Itzhak Goldberg; on the essay by Pierre Wat: "Claude Viallat - Works; Writings; Interviews"

Hazan Publishing. (Beaux-Arts Magazine; 2007)