Osvaldo Romberg "The Color Factor 1973-2013 (Homage to Josef Albers and Raúl Lozza)"

Henrique Faria Fine Art

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Henrique Faria Fine Art presents Osvaldo Romberg’s exhibition The Color Factor 1973-2013, Homage to Josef Albers and Raúl Lozza, an exhibition reuniting his works from the last 30 years.

Romberg (Argentinean) is one of the most important conceptual artists from Latin America. As art historian and curator Rodrigo Alonso comments in his exhibition essay “Orders, Expansions, Interactions”:

A good portion of Osvaldo Romberg’s body of work centers on the analysis and dismantling of the systems of pictorial construction developed between the Renaissance and the avant-gardes. His work explicitly reveals the structural scaffolding (material, perceptual and cultural) on which our aesthetic appreciation rests. Nevertheless, Romberg feels a particular pull toward those methodical artists who have erected veritable formal orders, following rigorous lines of work, such as Mondrian, Malevich, or Albers.

His work, far from demystifying these masters, clearly reveals the potentiality of the plastic orders in all their dimensions. Romberg expands that potentiality to the point of placing it in dialogue with other disciplines, such as architecture, literature, and music. His installation The Hanover Color Constellation, 82-83, is a good example. In it, the colors of the color spectrum are spread over the viewing space following a strictly established formal logic: to each point in space there corresponds a tonality as an objective datum, a truth about color. Here, once more, this ceases to be a mere given of reality and reveals itself to be an element capable of modeling spaces, rhythms, and concepts; connecting art, the present, cultural heritage, and life.

In the early 1970s, Argentinean conceptual artist Osvaldo Romberg began using a grid to analyze the tone and saturation of various colors. His thorough taxonomies are vibrant, rainbow-like compositions whose optical effects exceed and deform the empirical structure of the grid with their uneven strokes of paint. Romberg’s deconstruction of both individual hues and those of famous historical paintings investigate the political and social conventions of looking and seeing. The works on paper from this period are infused with Romberg’s interest in art history, philosophy, linguistics, and informational systems.

Romberg is the Senior Curator at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. He is also a professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, where he a founded a center for experimental cinema, video and media art.

He has exhibited widely as an artist at institutions including the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York; the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

[Image: Osvaldo Romberg "The Hanover Color Constellation" (1982-83/2012) Acrylic on wood, Dimensions variable, Edition of 3]

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Schedule

from February 07, 2013 to March 23, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-02-07 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Osvaldo Romberg

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