Place: Toluca Fine Art, 5 rue Taylor – 75010 Paris Event: Líneas y Piedras Date: June 28th 2023 – July 7th 2023 Catalogue design: Olivier Andreotti (Toluca Studio) Curator: Alexis Fabry
« Although it is far from obvious within the context of the prevailing wisdom, I believe that geometrical abstraction is not only informed by, but also even largely anticipated by non-European modalities, or in any case by those of archaic Europe.
[…] If we begin, therefore, from the premise that art is any modification of materials aimed at expressive or symbolic ends, and if we accept that, in non-Western cultures, so-called ornamentation is the central art, we will be faced with a wide spectrum of artistic practices. Practices that, until now, have been overshadowed by a hierarchical Eurocentric conception of the arts. Thus, this different theoretical approach reveals the transformation of what scientific positivism, and the art history it has engendered, has called “geometrical decorations” in a myriad of abstract forms ».
César Paternosto La Irrupción del otro: la abstracción en la modernidad tardía [« The Eruption of the Other: Abstraction in Late Modernity »], Ediciones La Bahía, Archivo Lafuente, Spain, 2020
