Hommage au carré. Bouffée noire

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Hommage au carré. Bouffée noire dialogues and plays with the masterpiece Parfum Vert (1963), from Hommage au carré, by Joseph Albers. According to Joseph Albers, the artist’s task is the revelation, the evocation, together with the knowledge of the vision with the aim of getting people to open their eyes (Interaction of Color, 1963). The squares proportions follow the golden ratio, establishing a link between architecture and painting in a way that is evocative of classic art. Here, the original artwork is turned upside down, to symbolize a dialectic overturned in contents: from abstract to figurative, from poetic imagination (synesthesia) to sense of appreciation of daily imaginary (dandelion flower that can be seen in common grass night time), from a closed composition to unexpected and spontaneous vitality (asymmetry). A game of contradictions and oppositions to give birth to thinking and revelations. Mt 6,31 “If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”.