Bajo Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷
Acrylic paint on concrete wall
Variables dimensions
These series of works were published and printed in the second issue of Hymen magazine in Oslo, Norway
2015
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During the month of November 2015 I decided to make a series of six, very simple and solid murals under a series of specific conditions.
The conditions:
-To limit my visual language to a circle on a background.
-To limit my visual language to a selection of two plain colors, chosen from a palette of blue, red, yellow, green or gray.
-To maintain the geometric shape with certain proportions relative to the size and shape of the wall.
-To center the geometric figure in space.
-To document the work at sunset.
-To document the work in its spatial context.
-To document the work from a frontal view.
-To document the work from the edge of the sidewalk on the opposite side of the road.
The questions:
While I was painting, different people came up to me asking the same question:
“What is the meaning behind your work?”.
I always respond to this question with another question:
“What does it mean to you?”
The answers:
The majority associated the colors with elements found in the Argentine people’s vivid imagination:
-Football teams: San Lorenzo de Almagro, Tigre, Boca Juniors.
-Carnival.
-Political campaign for PRO (followed by an ironic joke).
A smaller group of people talked about Japan’s flag.
I also got a few unexpected answers:
-Christmas time.
-A dot.
-A ball.
-A ring.
-A dish.
-A hat.
-A mexican hat.
-A wheel.
-A clock.
-A planet.
-Neptune.
-A car.
-An eye.
-A letter O.
-The Moon.
-Nothing at all.
-A light.
-A flashlight.
-A window.
-A door to a different dimension.
-A face.
-A head.
-A person.
-Mars.
-Bauhaus.
-A flag.
-A fire in the hole.
No one said anything about the Sun.