07/25/16 - Winter holidays. The Faena Art Center invites us to play and experiment as kids in a labyrinth of colors. That's what "Forms From Life" is, a site-specific by artist Typoe (USA, 1983), which offers a tour around a series of gigantic colorful geometric pieces.

Typoe is from Miami and his colors come from his past as a graffiti-artist and from his city's Art Deco district. Each visitor can start the tour as he wishes, there is no marked entrance and you get to decide what path to follow. Once inside, you can travel back to your childhood (and enter a castle made of blocks) or feel immersed in a geometric world.

Forms From Life, by Typoe

Site-specific. Faena Art Center

Inside this colorful labyrinth of cubes and stairs that lead to nowhere, suddenly we bump into fake marble columns. We don't longer see a kids' game but a series of pieces leading to an antique temple, with crow-like figures and a skull. This is a reminder that we are not eternal. A tombstone is placed to strengthen this idea and the tour becomes disturbing: the dilemma between life and death, through the glass of Contemporary Art.

Forms From Life, by Typoe

Site-specific. Faena Art Center

Typoe shifted his career from street art to a more conformist expression with what Contemporary Art is today. But we wonder, has that made him a true artist or was he so before, when he did graffitis?  The only truth is that if something defines this period is the lack of definitions: the beauty of uncertainty. On the other hand, Typoe's blocks have something of Daniel Buren's and, coincidences of the art world, the ME (Museo Espacio) in Mexico City, is currently displaying his site-specific called "Como un juego de niño". Artistic chances.