Untitled

“In contrast to the chromatic asceticism of the 1960s, the 1970s begin with an explosion of colour. After the landscapes and portraits of the 1940s, colour had not been a major feature of Iberê Camargo’s painting. This is a return to the artist’s colourist origins, now at the service of a fully formed personal language. The untitled painting (accession number P076) of 1970 is a good example of this return. The undefined forms relate to the spools, but also to the imprecise forms of the prints of the 1960s. The paint surface is dense and full of movement, echoing through the dynamism of forms spreading upwards and downwards beyond the picture edge, as if the painted moment were a framing of something much larger.”
Paulo Gomes, Iberê e seu ateliê: as coisas, as pessoas e os lugares (Porto Alegre: Fundação Iberê Camargo, 2015), 151.