By MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
Geometry and Instability: This exhibition brings together a set of works by Latin American artists who, in dialogue with different trends in abstract and geometric art, explore the possibilities of pictorial language to challenge perception, generating sensations of movement and instability of the visual field. Exploring various possibilities of the relationship between shape and color, using compositional resources such as repetition and displacement, they disrupt the geometric order, stressing regularity until it vibrates or explodes. The surface of the works seems to deny its two-dimensionality to offer oscillating appearances, vibrations and depth effects, with a disturbing and vertiginous tone.
As observers, we feel that our attention falls on works with a tendency to play; still attracted, however, by optical illusions and the changing aspect of images.
it is from this perspective that a possible line of reading is proposed: the question about our relation with time, duration, rhythm and the restlessness of contemporary life.
Images that flee briefly through the retina fail to capture lasting attention. They spread their visual appeal and fade away.
Can these works act as an invitation to stop? To dwell in the time taken to contemplate what they unfold before our eyes?
¿Qué ideas pictóricas se plantean por medio de la superposición de capas, transparencias, difuminados y distorsiones formales? ¿Es que ante ellas el tiempo se despliega?
Perhaps the ideas, aesthetic experiences and the moving effects of these images that “attack” the eye can acquire a new brilliance in the context of a thought about technological regimes, network algorithms and their demand for attention, struggling to capture our availability time in front of the images.
The tour of this exhibition invites us to reflect on time and our relationship with images in contemporary life.
El recorrido por esta exposición nos invita a reflexionar sobre el tiempo y nuestra relación con las imágenes en la vida contemporánea.
