Objeto Ativo
Posted: September 15, 2016 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing, Sculpture | Tags: Active Object, Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Concrete Invention, geometric abstraction, Latin American Art, modern art, Museo Reina Sofia, Objeto Ativo, Steve Roden, Willys de Castro Leave a comment“I see Castro’s entire body of work as a series of breadcrumbs scattered across a forest floor. For some, hundreds of tiny pieces of old stale bread is hardly worth noticing, while others are able to discover within a trail of detritus a path towards something not yet known. It this within this tension between the known and unknown that de Castro’s works generously offer the alchemical potential to their viewers. Of course, with alchemy everything is already there for the making, but one must have the right point of view…”
From Steve Roden’s essay, The Intimate Boundlessness, in the exhibition catalogue Concrete Invention: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Objeto Ativo, Willys de Castro, 1961
Objeto Ativo (Cubo Vermelho/Branco), Willys de Castro, 1962
Modulated Composition, Willys de Castro, 1954
