FORMASOBREFONDO in Terremoto

Aug 2, 2017 8:34PM

Artists: Ana Bidart, Sergio Camargo, Ulises Carrión, Helen Escobedo, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, On Kawara, Leo Marz, Paulo Monteiro, Gabriel de la Mora, Edgar Orlaineta, Mauro Piva, Sebastián Romo, José Luis Sánchez Rull, SANGREE, Fred Sandback, Marco Treviño, Ignacio Uriarte

The exhibitionFORMASOBREFONDOproposes a review of contemporary formalist aesthetics. This group exhibition is grounded in the dissolution of the formalism/conceptualism dichotomy. The title is a play on the schematics of modernist visuality of figure and ground, in this sense it is a tautological text in that it illustrates the exhibition’s conceptual framework when the letters in the title organize themselves intoformas sobre fondo[forms on a ground]. Through this wording, the exhibition reveals the thinness of distinction between forms and concepts—abstraction and syntax.

Edgar Orlaineta

Socrates's Cup (Metal I), 2017

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