Gordon Lebredt
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Gordon Lebredt

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ABOVE: Gordon Lebredt, Title: not specified .
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04
Title: not specified
1974-75 / 2005
oil on canvas
159.2 x 238.7 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery;
Acquired with funds from The Winnipeg Foundation
(G-82-66)

Like Epokhé, Title: not specified was only finished in 2005 with the addition of the acrylic sheeting with the vinyl title block, and the mounting of the painting in a four-part frame, similar to Epokhé. Upon completion, Lebredt attached the following text to the back of the painting:

Adding, here, nothing that the frame won't hold-upon its falling away.

At first glance, a picture all too squarely painted: a painting, which, as a calculated opening or surface, divides itself, at once, between the “authenticity” of the phenomenal “here and now” and the suppleness of the detour, of the putting aside.

Adding, here, not an excess or simple surplus to the so-called primary work (the painting), but rather, an extra or supernumerary whose dis-played effects must, henceforth, be taken into account.

The painting is based on a photograph taken by Lebredt of Doug Sigurdson and Suzanne Gillies, co-founders of Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg in 1972. Lebredt made the painting by first covering the blank canvas with a piece of craft paper gridded off into sections. He then cut out one square of the paper and painted in the area that corresponded to the gridded source photograph. After the painted area had dried, he replaced the paper square and moved on to the next square, applying the same process for the painting of the entire work. This restriction demanded that Lebredt complete the entire painting without seeing the work as it progressed. The finished painting was only revealed after all the squares were done. Again, Lebredt wanted to emphasize programme, or technicity, with respect to what otherwise would appear as a more or less seamless painterly event.