ASPECTS OF MODERNISM AND CONTEMPORANEITY IN BLACK AND WHITE
No element that composes art history can be isolated; each is a block in which the construe of the future is either predestined or defined.
Galería Elvira Moreno bases its curatorial selection of this exhibit on two transcendental figures in art history. The first, Rene D'Harnoncourt, director of the curatorial departments at MoMA in the mid-20th century who stated: "Modern Art is not an isolated phenomenon in history, but is, like the art of any period, an integral part of the art of all ages, as well as an expression of its epoch" and Kazimir Malevich, whose Suprematist manifesto laid the foundation for modern artistic expression. Under the alighting of both premises, our gallery has decided to curate an aspect of artists that spam from the last decades of the 20th century up to the nascent decades of the 21st, ranging from those that are nowadays the fundaments of contemporaneity to contemporaneity itself.
We've chosen the emblematic visual context of works expressed in Black and White inspired by Malevich's statement: "The black square on the white field was the first form that expressed a non-objective form in painting "feeling." The (black) square equals one's feeling, and the white field equals the void beyond this feeling."
"Everything which we love is lost" was what the public said at seeing Malevich's "Black Square," denoting that all art, as previously expressed, was lost. Yet, his work was an invitation to ascend into the purest sensation that art sublimely evokes, far from dogmas or chronological, stylistic, or formal classification, refined and basic, secular yet spiritual, black and white.
Artists:
Mira Schendel, Waltercio Cáldas, Victor Vasarely, Eduardo Terrazas, Jorge Riveros, Joaquín Segura, Ernesto Leal, Johanna Calle, Rafael Echeverri, Jaime Bellechasse, Lucio Celis, Federico Ovalles, Antonio Pichillá, Ernesto Briel, Juan Iribarren, Pedro Tagliafico, Guillermo García Cruz, Carlos Rojas, Pedro de Oraá, Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar, Alfredo Hlito, Alberto Miani, Beatriz Grau, Andrés Michelena, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Milton Becerra, Eugenio Espinoza, Julio Le Parc, Julia Carrillo, Manolo Vellojín, and Belkis Ayón.
