“I AND THOU: Processes of Abandonment and Anorexic Purification in César Trasobares’ New Sculptures”
Published in MIAMI ART PAPER, March 1996, Vol. 1 No. 1, by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, 1996
The point of departure for the discussion of these works is abandonment. A less dramatic word would be refinement. In both cases, it is the outcome of an anorexic process – a visual diet during which narrative, local, political, ethnic, representative, iconographic, biographical, theatrical and emotional elements have been removed from the menu; all these have been compressed and squeezed, as it were, into the wood and marble boards, reduced to two material elements only, perfected into an ascetic minimalist choreography of designed structural shapes in natural colors of wood and marble.
“I AND THOU: Processes of Abandonment and Anorexic Purification in César Trasobares’ New Sculptures”
Published in MIAMI ART PAPER, March 1996, Vol. 1 No. 1, by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, 1996
The point of departure for the discussion of these works is abandonment. A less dramatic word would be refinement. In both cases, it is the outcome of an anorexic process – a visual diet during which narrative, local, political, ethnic, representative, iconographic, biographical, theatrical and emotional elements have been removed from the menu; all these have been compressed and squeezed, as it were, into the wood and marble boards, reduced to two material elements only, perfected into an ascetic minimalist choreography of designed structural shapes in natural colors of wood and marble.