GROUP EXHIBITION

It is the sensible dimension which grants peremptory definitions about space, colour, form, line, movement, depth (Paul Cézanne’s great obsession), virtuality, and reality. These aesthetic-philosophical issues—which were at the heart of the concerns of artists and groups linked to kinetic art, Op Art and the new abstraction trends that emerged in the post-war period or linked to accelerated modernsation processes in the Global South, —are gaining relevance given the imminent arrival of artificial intelligence.

The artists gathered in the exhibition Detrás de la pantalla [Behind the Screen] capture in the space of the canvas color and movement, the enigma of seeing and not seeing. The impossibility of connecting sensible goals of experience with the reach of science in its eagerness to view things from fixed and stable categories. The smartphone’s screen—just like the canvas or support in painting—flattens what we see. These leave the exclusive dominance of three-dimensionality to sculpture, to what is often superimposed on the naked eye when we perceive an object. However, we know that a chair may or may not contain a body at rest. RGR offers a wide panorama of perspectives from artists who question what we see from this intermediate space that sometimes reverberates behind the screen.

Exhibition organized by Gabriela Rangel in collaboration with Ricardo González Ramos.