ABSTRACT
The mind has a color that we never see because some other color always passes through our minds and superimposes itself on our gaze. Only Shusaku Arakawa's glance is so swift that it succeeds in catching the right color and communicating it. In Arakawa's pictures are many lines. Some people think that lines stay still, but in fact they are always travelling from one place to another, or else they go on and on indefinitely, perhaps to infinity. In Arakawa's paintings we see that the lines belong to bundles of lines which may have a common point of departure or else may converge in a point, in which case they create perspectives. Arakawa's pictures are full of focal points, at which lines, planes, volumes, colours, forms, and universes converge. His canvases are almost always large, but the space they project cannot be measured.
