In his book entitled 'World without Objects', Maleics used the term 'pictureobject' implicitly for the physical aptitude of paintings considered spiritual entities. What he writes about is not the dead material but something that is the inevitable company of the existence of the picture. The materiality of the painted picture, be it architecture constructed of forms or an object self built on the power of colours, is one of the basic issues of modern art ever since various painting trends that broke from representation and story telling appeared on the art scene.

The exhibition reviews a few episodes of this process that started a few centuries ago but still lasts today, from the beginning of avant-garde up today, from picture architecture to material- and colour painting.