Twilight of Restinga Seca

"It is worth recalling that the paintings produced some years before Iberê's death, which contain no more than distant vestiges of the spools in a setting that freezes and impedes the dynamism and energy that could be associated with them – Tudo te é falso e inútil V (Everithing is False and Useless to You V) and Twilight of Restinga Seca, from 1993, are fine examples – do not fail to demonstrate the tragic and final form of their apperance. In fact these canvases can very well be seen as the final, disturbing and extreme form of those early paintings and prints of the spools which the artist arranged in a stack on small tables in a faint foreground, producing a subtle balance between calm and imminent disaster, between the affects with the objects may be endowed and the absolute inhumanity with which they coul also display it."
Sônia Salzstein, "Ausência dos Carretéis," in Mônica Zielinsky, Paulo Sergio Duarte and Sônia Salztein, Moderno no limite (Porto Alegre: Fundação Iberê Camargo, 2008), 124.