Angel Vergara: In the moment/ In the instant.
Mercator / MAC'S Fund| N° d'inventaire | 28286 |
| Format | 21 x 28 |
| Détails | 224 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789462303423 |
Returning to the work, constantly imprinting and erasing the canvas, stubbornly penetrating it and inhabiting it to the point of merging with it, such are the traits and lines of force of Angel Vergara's magnum opus.
His founding act was, in the 1980s, to wrap himself in a white sheet – like a blank canvas or a ghostly shroud – to filter and transpose into diagrams an entire urban ecology and an economy of human exchanges (commercial, cultural, political or artistic). In addition to the agility of the brush, the fluidity of color and the freedom of a canvas sometimes shared with passers-by, it is the ingenuity of hybrid devices and assemblages to which Straatman, his alter ego, will resort that singularizes, in contemporary art, a work in the form of an allegory of painting and in direct contact with reality.
Returning to the work, constantly imprinting and erasing the canvas, stubbornly penetrating it and inhabiting it to the point of merging with it, such are the traits and lines of force of Angel Vergara's magnum opus.
His founding act was, in the 1980s, to wrap himself in a white sheet – like a blank canvas or a ghostly shroud – to filter and transpose into diagrams an entire urban ecology and an economy of human exchanges (commercial, cultural, political or artistic). In addition to the agility of the brush, the fluidity of color and the freedom of a canvas sometimes shared with passers-by, it is the ingenuity of hybrid devices and assemblages to which Straatman, his alter ego, will resort that singularizes, in contemporary art, a work in the form of an allegory of painting and in direct contact with reality.