I take the modernist concept of Brutalism, derived from the name of a type of architecture carried out between the 50’s and 70’s that was characterized by the austerity of its forms, the exaltation of materiality, the economy of resources and, formally, with a strong geometric imprint.
In my work I take fragments of these constructions and transpose them to wood as a support, trying to dialogue with the intention that these works originally had with the materiality, its visibility and the environment.
Color emerges as an aesthetic consequence, generating a tension between the support and the form that inhabits it, giving a different character to each construction that resides within the limits of the frame, an element that, far from simply seeking to allude to the concept of window or confinement frame, is integrated into the work generating an indivisible whole.
Consequently, we could call the series “Minimal Brutalisms” as fragments or cuttings of modern architecture, which allows us to relive it in the simulation that painting brings to us.

Pablo Morgante