Joaquin Torres García

at Galeria Sur(TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Estructura Universal con tres arcos, 1945

 The person is divided into two parts: basic instincts - animal(the left small arc) and spirit - soul(the right small arc). The human basic instincts part is the same as in any other animals - they want to eat, to breed and to be safe. The spirit part is what makes us different from the animal world. This is logic and abstract thinking.It let us observe and conclude.A mix of these two building blocks gives us the universe of personalities, characters, feelings and behaviors. This is the third big arc. That arc lets people do almost anything they can think of.

Victor Magariños D.

Victor Magariños D. at Galeria Sur (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Estructura espacial II

The figure in the upper right is a person. He thinks that he is unique. He is self-cultivated, sophisticated. He is almost a perfect circle. But in reality he is a part of much much bigger construct, History. This construct looks like a circle, but it is not. It is a spiral. And the person is on the top of that spiral, building the next coil of History. And if you look closer at the person, you will see that he is not that unique. A lot of things that define him, he received from the lower levels of the spiral (red, grey, yellow).