Exhibitions
Sandra Sanseverino: the shape of the void
An exploration of emptiness, matter and the spiritual dimension of the color black.
Piramidón, Contemporary Art Center hosts the exhibition La forma del vacío by Argentine artist Sandra Sanseverino (Buenos Aires, 1971). The show brings together a series of works that traverse the limits of pictorial abstraction to reflect on emptiness, spirituality and the use of the color black as a conceptual and material axis.
The form of emptiness, which can be visited until September 16, represents a new stage in Sanseverino's artistic process, which understands technique not only as a medium, but as content in itself. As Ricard Casals Coiduras points out, the artist takes up Marshall McLuhan's maxim, "The medium is the message", to emphasize that "technique is in itself a reflection".
In his approach to emptiness, Sanseverino proposes a reading that is far removed from the fear that predominates in the Western tradition. From a perspective close to Eastern cultures and certain pictorial discourses, emptiness is conceived as an opportunity for liberation: “Emptying oneself, exhausting ideas, resources. Restarting oneself, like a blocked device. Paradoxically, emptiness is the condition for the creation of form,” states Casals.
One of the central themes of the exhibition is the exploration of black as a pictorial dimension. In the artist's own words: “... I have realized that painting with the color black is as natural as night is part of the day. Understanding that you cannot know everything, I have focused my attention on a single element of the painting out of necessity, with the desire to delve into it and develop it. And I have discovered that it is made up of all the others. Just as 'an individual' can reflect 'humanity'.”
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