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Barcelona What’s On December: Art: MACBA

Palazuelo

15th November 2006 – 18th February 2007

Like Gego an important, yet neglected figure of the late 20th Century art scene. Pablo Palazuelo coined the term ‘non-figurative’ for his own work, as opposed to ‘abstract’, and it is judged against the conventional view of the evolution of abstract art- from

Picasso towards minimalism- that his work suffers. Like Gego, Palazuelo was obsessed with geometry. Inspired by Klee and the Russian constructivists, Gabo and Pevsner, he sought to evoke the hidden reality of the psyche through imagination and saw geometric systems as the way to achieve that.

A few words from the man himself: “Geometry is at the origin of life, which is the most inventive and endless thing we know. To have a vision of the structures that are contained in other structures, to see the new forms in potential, to see the possibilities of generating forms, to experience the passage of forms into others through metamorphosis, to see what grows like a plant. The geometrical forms I work with also develop through a very long metamorphic process or movement, and for that reason we can say that those forms are open and remain open and predisposed to transformation.”

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