The exhibition Ciao Carlo presents a series of small abstract paintings from 2022, which Osipow painted during the latest of his many winter residencies in the Italian village of Grassina.
Executed with oil paint on small canvases measuring from 18 × 24 cm to 20 × 30 cm, these paintings demonstrate Osipow’s mastery of simple gestures and mark making, lending grandeur to the diminutive formats. The paint is applied with distinct sensuous strokes, with a brush or carefully sculpted with a palette knife, predominantly in vivid primary colors and the occasional black, ochre or brown. The results are striking compositions, simultaneously intimate and monumental, regardless of scale.
