Across six decades, traditions, and geographies, the artists in this exhibition arrive at a shared impulse: going back to basics not to simplify the world, but to recover its essential shape.
The exhibition begins with Adriana Rocha’s (Brazil) portraits, where color replaces drawing as the primary tool of definition. In her Primarias series, color functions as a veil through which the figure gradually dissolves, challenging its conventional role of defining form and depth. Rather than serving the figure, color becomes an autonomous force, charged with emotion, perception, and questions of identity.
From this dissolution of the figure, the exhibition moves toward color as pure visual energy. Getulio Alviani’s (Italy-Venezuela) dynamic spirals abandon narrative in favor of rhythmic compositions built from primary reds and blues, while artists such as Karl Jerry Craig (Jamaica) similarly allow color and form to operate beyond representation. Elsewhere, color takes on a more physical and corporeal presence: in the work of Alejandra Repetto (Argentina) and Carlos Nicanor (Canary Islands), red evokes vitality and the body, while Fernando Canovas and Carolina Sardi (Argentina) transform primary reds and yellows into material and structural elements.