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Espace Meyer Zafra is pleased to present our Summer Show bringing together the works of Yaacov Agam, Carmelo Arden Quin, Ennio L. Chiggio, Manfredo Massironi, Manuel Mérida, Francisco Salazar, Nicolas Schoffer, Shirley Shor and René Ugarte.
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Honored for its aestheticism and for its captivating effect on the viewer, and despite the marginalization of his work that we often like to associate with kinetics, the work of Manuel Mérida remains of no less importance in the history of art. - Hervé Mikaeloff
The artwork Cercle Cuivre, was exhibited at the Fondation Villa Datris in 2023 in a special installation made especially for the show Mouvement et Lumière #2
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Sensitive and sober, the work of Rene Ugarte (1951 - ) is the fruit of a coherent reflection and a rigorous discipline. Based on the concept of structure, his paintings, executed on canvas and wood, reveal a simple configuration: the use of pure forms (square and rectangle) and the line in an alternative and repetitive way. Ugarte is developing a network of lines that cross the board horizontally, vertically and diagonally. The diagonal that he uses in a systematic way allows him to accentuate the dynamism of the work. Through this network of lines, orthogonal shapes determined by solid colors appear. Nevertheless, this rigorous geometrical structure which gives the painting an impression of balance and visual unity, is none the less illusory. It is the imbalance, the asymmetry, the destructuring that the artist seeks in his work. So he plays with ambiguity and dynamics to acquire a greater presence in space and come to a new reading, a discontinuous reading of his work.
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Shirley Shor belongs to the generation of contemporary artists who use new media to redefine the boundaries of art. Computers are thus used as vehicles in their own right for artistic production. Shirley Shor's works can be presented as follows: using computer code, the artist generates constantly evolving liquid environments and architectures. This early work, with its shifting colors, has evolved into a series of striking impressions. These paintings and installations offer visitors unexpected moments. Shirley Shor also conveys powerful messages about conflict, language, the passage of time, and the lives of women in today's society.
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Nicolas Schöffer is considered the founder of Cybernetic art, his work merges aesthetic and cybernetic concepts with great success. He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Budapest and later at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he resided for most of his life. The metallic sculptures that he created in the nineteen forties have references in Constructivism and Neoplasticism, and through them, he began to explore the relationships between tridimensional sculptural forms and the fourth dimension of time and movement.
Summer Show: Agam, Arden Quin, Chiggio, Massironi, Mérida, Salazar, Schoffer, Shor, Ugarte.
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