© Hervé Constant

Contant's ostensibly simple abstract is achieved through a highly structured technique and finish, balancing and repeating grid-like constructions and elements to create echoes and repetitions that play with notions of surface and depth, underpinned by the bold but limited palette. This work was included in Hervé Constant's 1995 exhibition 'As Above... So Below' at Ben Uri Gallery, curated by Julia Weiner, who observed of Constant's abstracts that, 'Rather than offering the viewer easy solutions to how his paintings should be read, Contant encourages one to study his works independently and find one's own meaning'.