Mafalda Santos
2008
In her case the classical reference would be the minimalist painting that was so typical of the 1960s and 1970s, where artists such as Robert Ryman or Agnes Martin repeatedly worked on the concept of the grid, that played a key role in defining their compositions. In this case however - due to the economy of means -
there is a double irony, either in relation to the history of art and perseverance in painting as such, that is repeatedly claimed to have been exhausted and whose death has been regularly announced, or in relation to the fascination that vintage objects - such as old notebooks - strangely exercise upon us, in our increasingly virtual and digitalised era.
Miguel von Hafe Pérez
In her case the classical reference would be the minimalist painting that was so typical of the 1960s and 1970s, where artists such as Robert Ryman or Agnes Martin repeatedly worked on the concept of the grid, that played a key role in defining their compositions. In this case however - due to the economy of means -
there is a double irony, either in relation to the history of art and perseverance in painting as such, that is repeatedly ...