AndresCuervo09042007
Secuencia video youtube.com
Invisibles - Still from Video "Filmed by Camilo Restrepo"
Instalation White oil over white canvas.
"(...)There was, however another side to his work. Cuervo`s intention was to combine art and life. Visual imagery always involved both, as far as he was concerned. In work´s like Invisibles (ill. above), consisting of three white canvases, painted white on white, hung from the ceiling and iluminated by three powerful reflectors, the art is altered by the viewer`s behaviour. Or, to put it more precisely, there is a close interaction between visual and spatial
perception. When the spectator stares directly at the white paintings, he inmediatly gets flared, can´t see beyond the surface. At first glance it would seem he is not depicting nothing and representing nothing,
very elusive indeed. As the light goes thru more in the areas of the canvas without painting than on those with it, the image depicted in white oil, transforms from a negative in the front to a positive in the back, then it is reflected again on the glass windows in the back and there it is finally revealed to our eyes, as an elusive truth- The work obligates the viewer to see beyond the canvas in order to see the actual work of art.(...)"
Secuencia video youtube.com
Invisibles - Still from Video "Filmed by Camilo Restrepo"
Instalation White oil over white canvas.
"(...)There was, however another side to his work. Cuervo`s intention was to combine art and life. Visual imagery always involved both, as far as he was concerned. In work´s like Invisibles (ill. above), consisting of three white canvases, painted white on white, hung from the ceiling and iluminated by three powerful reflectors, the art is altered by the viewer`s behaviour. Or, to put it more precisely, there is a close interaction between visual and spatial
perception. When the spectator stares directly at the white paintings, he inmediatly gets flared, can´t see beyond the surface. At first glance it would seem he is not depicting nothing and representing nothing,
very elusive indeed. As the light goes thru more in the areas of the canvas without painting than on those with it, the image depicted in white oil, transforms from a negative in the front to a positive in the back, then it is reflected again on the glass windows in the back and there it is finally revealed to our eyes, as an elusive truth- The work obligates the viewer to see beyond the canvas in order to see the actual work of art.(...)"