Estructuras constantes
25.11.2022 – 20.01.2023
Estructuras constantes “Estructuras constantes” (Constant structures) converges in a spatial encounter of volumes and blueprints, the name of the exhibition has been imported from the theory and harmony of jazz and popular music. It refers to a consecutive progression of chords with different root notes that unites disparate tones into a cohesive entity.
A musical perspective transcended and surpassed in form. From the process of emptying to ensure that the void fills the work, that the emotion arrives without the need for explanation. Of art that excites without being explained, and of art that needs an explanation to excite. In Constant Structure we are going to talk about serene art, and that which is located on the side of permanent search; of the critical, of looking and feeling, of feeling and getting excited. Of creation as an encounter: approach, reading and reflection.
Two artists: Amparo Tormo (Valencia 1960) and Leo Burge (London 1991), meet in a suggestive dialogue, in an inspiring chord where the perceptions of both aesthetic realities are confronted, allowing us to compare and reflect on the artistic practices of both, as well as the interference of language between generations and the universes that unite and separate them.
The bet is to reflect on the encounter and verify that there are works that are close to each other – in a non-hierarchical or linear way –, establishing dialogues by themselves.
Hence this timeless game of symbolic or visual correspondence, where you can almost see, in a rhythm of constant structures, processes and transformations, different ways of addressing the same topics such as the survival of schemes, materials or themes. Light and shadows induce us to observation, to an analysis of what is essential; to reduce elements in a search for harmony, interrogating the limits of the sensitive and expressive capacity of the materials, with rigor, with perfection... it leads us to encounter slow changes that confer clarity, precision and objectivity to the work, thus achieving a logic composition of elements, although singularly structured.
As we walk through the exhibition, the line guides us through the length of the room, furrows it and interrupts it, as if it were a chord.
The works function as sounds and harmonies in space, some whisper, others beat in a legato, while the viewer wanders, between folds and structures, shadows and lights that waver around the plane, as if they were harmonics that rise and fall to achieve a melody.
Leo Burge's voice intersects with Amparo Tormo's murmur, one with the other, the other with the one. A succession of planes, lines, footprints, traces and shadows between volumes that present the invisible as a story, where there is precisely no “story”.
A constant structure as a result or escape, a perfect harmony, impossible to catch.
Estructuras constantes are arranged like jazz intervals, the works of Leo Burge and Amparo Tormo achieve moments of dissonance and harmony through repetition and serial variation, the contrast of two or more views and what emerges from them as representation. The use of robust and industrial materials by artists often conflicts with the lightness and ethereal fragility that their works embody, a dichotomy always present in this pentagram, from minimalism, to process art. We see how they are articulated, come together in distilled forms, atmospheres and textures that invite us to take our time and contemplate this staging
Available artworks
2022
Leo Burge
43 x 50.5 cm
wire laminated with epoxy on papier-mâché
2021
Leo Burge
93 x 61 x 2.5 cm
natural glue and transparent tape on linen and wood frame
2022
Leo Burge
23.5 x 32.5 x 2.5 cm
Collage, blade, magnets and adhesive tape on polycarbonate, framed in papier-mâché and aluminum
2022
Leo Burge
141 x 2 x 0,8cm
smoothed and bent iron rod, laminated with epoxy and aluminum tape