Zielinsky is pleased to present “Contrast of forms”, a group exhibition with works by Almandrade (1953, São Felipe, Brazil), Yamandú Canosa (1954, Montevideo, Uruguay), Guillermo Garcia Cruz (1988, Montevideo, Uruguay), Jaime Gili (1972, Caracas, Venezuela), Dedé Lins (1972, Salvador de Bahía, Brazil), Martín Pelenur (1977, Montevideo, Uruguay) and Jorge Riveros (1934, Ocaña, Colômbia). The show focuses on geometric abstractionism, its legacy and influence on the production of Latin American artists from countries such as Venezuela, Uruguay, Brazil and Colombia and exhibits a series of paintings and drawings that have been produced since the 1960.
Between revealing and hiding, following the line or diverting it, using the black color to cover up an image, suggesting the encounter of a phallic form with another receiving form, observing a lake that reveals something unknown until then, to locate a hole and look at what is behind it. Geometric shapes are present in the exhibition in different ways, not chronologically but from formal approximation.
In the work of Jorge Riveros (1934, Ocaña, Colombia), one of the most representative living abstract geometric Colombian artists, we observe in the sketches of the series “Construcción del recuerdo” and “Tiempo” that the geometric forms are balanced in totemic structures on a reduced scale. In the work of Dedé Lins (1972, Salvador de Bahía, Brazil), waste materials from the textile industry are cut and arranged by colors and shapes in phallic pictorial compositions endowed with movement and vibration. In the painting of Guillermo García Cruz (1988, Montevideo, Uruguay) there is an attempt to disorient the viewer’s perception in relation to the surface of the work and produce a noise effect, like a temporary error or a “glitch”, a term borrowed by the artist used in the computer context. In the works of Yamandú Canosa (1954, Montevideo, Uruguay) the enigmatic landscape of Vostok and its depth, as well as the veiled landscape, reveals us more than hides the construction of an image that does not want to focus on what is said. In the relief of Almandrade (1953, São Felipe, Brazil) the encounter between the word and the architecture and between the form and its displacement establish the visual and literary references behind the piece: from concrete poetry to the conceptual object. In the work of Jaime Gili (1972, Caracas, Venezuela) you can see a past and a future on the same surface, the artist combines the freshness and compositional speed of drawings, with technologies of automotive paint and metallic supports. The works in this series, as he says, are pure “crystallisation of ideas”, a clear, shiny distillation of moments frozen in time. And finally, in the work of Martín Pelenur (1977, Uruguay), painting is a way of experimenting, exercising and putting into the world systems and procedures that can be repeated in a way where the result does not depend solely on the act produced by the artist, but also of the chance produced by the materials.