John Banting (1902-1972)

'It is a typically "formalistic" work in which forms are made to play with forms in a kind of visual construction and creating tensions, the general appearance of which may make one think of a figure or personage, but in a totally abstract way.
Here one can see the other side of Banting's surrealism, the creation of a space in which forms are being born, almost taken by surprise while vying with each other. In that sense, one may think of Miro's own fascination with the inception of forms but, obviously, at the opposite, I mean in a total surrendering to the organicity of forms, not their geometricity.' (We are very grateful to Michel Remy for providing this catalogue entry).