In this series of 30 small, acrylic paintings that Vatne made over the course of one month-a painting per day in November-December 2014-he returns painting to its simplest-and paradoxically-often most aesthetically problematic decision, which remains form, colour, and the square as a geometric plane in time and space. In this way he is contributing to an ongoing dialogue with painters such as Malevich, Rothko, Albers, Ryman, Marden and, especially,...