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Saúl Kaminer

Drexel gallery presents Tiempo de luz y sombra, solo exhibition by artist Saúl Kaminer.

The title of this exhibition, which associates the opposition of light and shadow, metaphorically intermingling them to create an aesthetic and existential dialectic, perhaps sums up in itself the maturity of a work that finds, in this last presentation of the artist, painter, sculptor and engraver at the same time, the culmination of a sensitive and coherent intellectual process where life and work intertwine incessantly. It also reflects how the challenge of the space found its plenitude in the play between emptiness and fullness, between plane and volume, contrasts that found the deep essence of his aesthetic reflection: one in which the oppositions are diluted, while mutually nourishing each other, thus affirming the complexity of all artistic creation.

His artwork becomes more and more light and airy; straight lines and curves develop a singular choreography that encourages a spatial organization and eliminates any element susceptible of appearing “ anecdotic ”. The subtle (and skillful) cut that we appreciated in his figurative universe is today at the service of a geometry in which the limits of space seem to be gradually erased. If in this fragmented but controlled construction, color plays an essential role, drawing has always occupied, in Kaminer, a fundamental place as the invisible skeleton of these forms and these overlapping lines, whose aesthetic does not fail to remind us of a revisited kineticism, or perhaps a minimalism. However, in his abstract compositions, in his ondulations, cuttings, fragmentations, tangles and flashes of color, nature is never far away.

The installation entitled Verticalidad, comienzo y semilla (2023-2024, 400 x 300 cm), created for the exhibition, welcomes the visitor upon entering and immediately establishes that dimension of spatial poetics in which rigor and emotion are inseparable, as they always were in Kaminer.

The spaced path, which alternates three-dimensional and two-dimensional works, privileging the role of space in the organization. Transparency, balance, movement, evanescence and corporeality are the structural and formal challenges that the artist has been facing for many years, in a very personal work that, in this exhibition, finds its full realization.

Master of both line and color form, Saul Kaminer's abstract work undoubtedly gives rise to an “imaginary” that is built between oppositions, whether structural or polychrome, or, as he says, in that intermediate that goes from shadow to light, from clarity to darkness.

— Christine Frérot