An austere choreography...
2:11 p.m.Artist Iván Contreras Brunet, born in Santiago de Chile in 1927 (he lives in Paris since the 1950s), is exhibiting at the MACBA a series of artworks in which our vision is trapped between the first and second levels.
Carres blancs, by Iván Contreras Brunet (1958)
Technique: acrylic on 4-mm-plexiglass
Most paintings on display hold geometric structures: a kind of architecture which, sometimes, produces a certain movement.
Degradé horizontal cinétique, by Iván Contreras Brunet (1972)
Materials: net, acrylic and wood
Degradé horizontal cinétique, by Iván Contreras Brunet (Detail)
As Gérard Xuriguera explains in the museum's brochure, in Contreras Brunet's organisation of structures you can find a certain levitation, in which the weaving, before the canvas, generates a metallic vegetation...
Blanco y negro, by Iván Contreras Brunet (1958)
Technique: acrylic on three layers of 4-mm-plexiglass
Geometric art to be explored up-close, a 3D optic illusion. Works that can be related to the works of Julio Le Parc, Manuel Espinosa and Marta Boto.
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