A saturated red field spreads over the greater part of the surface and halts abruptly at a dark, jagged band, beneath which a band of white matter falls silent. Two slender vertical marks suspended within the red constitute the sole events in an otherwise motionless expanse. Intervallo denotes the pause itself, and here it is twofold: the horizontal void of the black band that severs the transition between the white matter and the incandescent ground, and the vertical void between the two marks. Neither the red nor the white, but the narrow seam in which one yields to the other: the painting holds that interval open and never discloses which side we are departing and which we are about to enter.
