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Reiteraciones del pliegue
Fold reiterations
Art
Contemporary
Location
Diéresis Gallery,
Páramo Gallery
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Year
2020
Artist
Francisco Morales,
MATTER IS IN ITSELF BAROQUE
IT UNFOLDS TO INFINITY
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
There are an enormous number of folds: fabric folds, topographic folds, skin folds. They are symmetrical, parallel, inclined, inverted, with smooth or a cute angles.
The fold has always been a constant in all artistic periods. It has the characteristic of adapting to the time and space in which the conceptual idea is developed. They all coincide in moving and dispersing in order to achieve diversification in a given space. This is the challenge. It was the Baroque that drove the notion of the fold to its own limits.
It has been the subject of profound reflection by great thinkers; for example, the unequivocally baroque condition of Leibniz's philosophy finds its justification in the fact that in it everything folds, unfolds and folds back to infinity.
Based on the aforementioned concepts, the series “Reiterations of the Fold” aims to interpret the fold as a guiding concept through linear and volumetric exercises, exploring various possibilities to represent it in a neat and clear way and others in a more abstract way.
The compositions are not intended to be a purely sketching exercise, but a way of interpreting the environment without imitating it. If we were to approach any object, surface or scenario, we would see that everything is formed by infinite reiterations of lines in all imaginable directions. Reiteration makes the line cease to be itself and become something else, taking on a new optical or perceptual significance. Saturations become atmospheres, visual fields that, more than an optical effect or a specific aesthetic, can be associated with sensations linked to space or time. The echo of the lines makes us perceive them as part of a whole.
Art has its own strategies for ordering, arranging and structuring images, discourses and meanings. In these, the line is not only a way of representing nature. It is part of nature itself, where flow and frequency function as reiterations of the fold. We cannot escape from the universal geometry, where the line is the protagonist and the guide.
It is paradoxical, instructive and an essential part of the plastic discourse to observe how the line and its simplicity can lead us to reflections of extraordinary complexity. With the practice of privilege, almost extinct, reserved for contemplation, we can open our perception in an attempt to discover these dimensions so ignored today.
