Geometria figurativa. Figurative Geometry

Figurative Geometry brings together works by nine artists who can be thought to represent abstraction or, equally, to abstract representation.
To these ends, geometry and figuration are intermingled;
shapes are shifted, geometry bends around itself, patterns emerge, while figuration refers to bodies in space-bodies which come forward and recede-as well as to numbers and their temporal register, to the number, for example, of seconds in a day.
Time is also one of the subjects at hand. All of these works have been hand-painted, in some cases wet-into-wet, having to be completed in a single session. The brushstroke itself, amplified and performing to the scale and volume of the picture plane, has duration.
Whether revealing their contents gradually or seemingly in an instant, an element of time exists between the image and its reception, between the viewer and the work.
The works in this book, even the most abstract in appearance, perhaps these most of all, can be seen to represent the act of looking, on the parts of both the artist and the viewer.