
Rezi van Lankveld
Rezi van Lankveld’s unusual technique involves pouring paint onto flat panels placed on the floor and, in a process rather like reading tea leaves, conjuring an image out of the patterns formed. It may seem haphazard, but what she divines from the random mess is nothing less than inspired. Her technique has a more profound effect when the result is less like finger painting in chocolate syrup, as in Give and take twist and kill, 2005, and more shambolic, as in Treasure or Second nature, both 2004. The almost baroque apparitions in Souvenir and Ideas of solution, both 2005, with their blotted-out