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MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
Why geometry?
The language of geometry is a democratic artistic interpretation, where the sensation of form and color have supremacy over any other factor. It allows unlimited interpretations and has a liberating effect on the human mind. It invites to an experience of beauty in the infinite combination of shapes and colors, without any obstacles for thought.
Painting (1971) by Aizenberg RobertoMACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
Roberto Aizenberg
(Entre Ríos, 1928 - Buenos Aires 1996)
Aizenberg uses geometry to enhance a flat perspective present in many of his works, which he uses to create static situations.
He seeks to achieve works representing a reality in itself, not imitative of another phonemic reality.
What stands out in this work are facets with detailed color graduations.
Painting (1955) by Álvarez ManuelMACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
Manuel Álvarez
(Buenos Aires, 1923 - Buenos Aires, 2013)
Álvarez began his career as an abstract painter in 1952.
Álvarez: “My paintings have much of the oriental, in the spiritual and sentimental meaning, more than in the modern one. Buddhism forces us to remain in a position and watch until we no longer see anything.”
This work is characterized by compositional balance and the rigorous selection of the tones used.
Interaction N10 (1968) by Brizzi AryMACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
Ary Brizzi
(Buenos Aires, 1930 - Buenos Aires, 2014)
Ary Brizzi pursued a career of a painter, sculptor and designer.
His painting is characterized by the use of tapes, segmented circles and straight lines which occupy the space creating stripes.
His works are a proof of the will of creation based on repetitions and groupings of forms; through their association, those are perceived as a unit.
Mandala II in Red (1969) by Mac Entyre EduardoMACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
Eduardo Mac Entyre
(Buenos Aires, 1929 - Buenos Aires, 2014)
His starting point was figurative painting; after going through a neo-Impressionist phase, Cubism and Constructivism, the artist eventually opted for geometric abstract art.
He applies geometric tools to obtain images characterized by optical instability.
His compositions are created from lines superimposed on a plane and generating frames which, combined with delicate chromatic graduations, produce a visual vibration.
Alejandro Puente
(La Plata, 1933 - Buenos Aires, 2013)
System Poliptych, work 3 of 4MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
Puente's geometric abstraction departs from a system of repetition of modular elements, a pattern which eventually consumes the object in its repetition.
System Poliptych, work 4 of 4MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
The decision regarding the palette responds to the artist's elaborate studies of color as language and as codification of the work.
System Poliptych, work 2 of 4MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
Puente shows interest in the artistic and iconographic traditions of the native peoples of America.
Realización y edición: Franco Degrossi - Carolina González.
