Inhabiting light...

7:05 p.m.

20/07/18 - Ungallery, in Buenos Aires, is currently exhibiting the final works Miguel Ángel Vidal’s career. The studied and tidy curatorship enhances the dynamism the artist always wanted to transmit through his artworks.

Let’s consider, for a moment, a piece of geometric art: what first comes to our mind are recognizable shapes, such as squares, triangles and such, in an estatic production. Vidal (Buenos Aires, 1928-2009) was able to create the optical effect of movement through the superposition of lines. Our eye can not solve them, curator Cristina Rossi explains.

El sonido de la luz, by Miguel Ángel Vidal (1996)

Technique: acrylic on canvas / Measures: 180 x 180 cm

Resplandor verde, by Miguel Ángel Vidal (1998)

Technique: acrylic on canvas / Measures: 120 x 120 cm

Vidal’s obsession to erase the static characteristics of geometric abstract painting and give movement to the canvas was achieved through the breaking down of the color. An absolute metamorphosis in a painting highly oriented towards science.