The present work was created in 1988, when Katharina Grosse was still master student of Gotthard Graubner in Düsseldorf. It is an early work by today’s so successful artist who has found her own artistic expression over the years. She initially studied under Norbert Tadeusz, who was intensively occupied with color as an object in his figurative works, at the Münster Art Academy. In Düsseldorf in the 1980s, Grosse discovered non-representational painting that focused on the interactions of colors. At that early time producing a picture was already a physically intensive process for the artist. She uses her brush to transfer body movements into her painting. "I studied performance with Ulrike Rosenbach for six months. When I returned to painting, I was more aware of what the body does in front of the canvas before it leaves traces on it", explained Katharina Grosse, emphasizing why her painting has such a rousing effect on its observers (quoted from: ex. cat. Farbe absolut. Katharina Grosse. Gotthard Graubner, Küppersmühle Duisburg, 2019, p. 81). The superposition of the colors that remains visible, a central element of her approach, is already hinted at in our early work and opens up the temporal aspect in the pictorial space. At the end of the 1990s, the spray gun finally became her preferred tool and would radically change her work method, and ultimately helped her to achieve great success. Her decision to devote herself entirely to color, at a time when painting was declared dead and new media such as photography and video art dominated the art scene, was also borne by her strong persuasiveness and her courage to put projects that seemed impossible at first into practice. Grosse's art is loud and present, it is not afraid of new twists and is therefore full of surprises. It is the starting point for an almost infinite number of ways of giving color a stage. The artist herself says: "I think color is amazing; it's not linked to space, to locality, or to objecthood. It's not linked to any kind of specific hierarchy. Nobody can tell me that yellow is more important than green [.] It's more what it is not and that's why I think it gives me so many possibilities." (Katharina Grosse, quoted from: Stephanie Buhmann, Berlin Studio Conversations, Berlin 2017, p. 242f.). [AR]