Collecting - White Cube - Presentations

For July and August 2022, Salon presents a monumental painting by Wayne Thiebaud – River Cloud, from a series of riverscapes the artist produced in 2002. A patchwork of painterly swaths and rivulets conveys a scene evocative of California’s Sacramento River Valley through the sheer materiality of stacked colour fields. An audio essay by poet, author and critic John Yau explores the physical and metaphorical aspects of Thiebaud’s treatment of colour, geometry and topography. By invoking a horizonless expanse, at ounce grounded and fluctuating, recognisable and abstract, Thiebaud probes fundamental questions about human beings’ relationships to the land.