Board has been very popular among painters, preceding canvas in Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. Heavy impasto, and the use of less traditional materials like enamels and more daring manipulations has given it a new role in recent years. I started using ‘MDF’ (as is known in the trade) on a regular basis for a series of 1995 paintings where I also combined it with Perspex (a flexible and transparent sheet of varying widths). I continued using ‘MDF’ for my show Analogies (1996) because the techniques that I experimented with required a very strong support. It can be heavy and therefore preferable for small scale formats.

                                                    Cecilia Vargas
 

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