Blue Horizon
- Technique
- Diptych in mixed media on canvas: folded and adhered bands of cardboard and paper, glazed with acrylic and oil, saline granulation and shaded joints.
- Dimensions
- 97 × 131 cm
- Year
- 1998
A relief diptych of strata in which calcareous matter breathes in horizontal bands, held in place by a fine, continuous blue horizon.
About the work
Before us, two adjacent panels raise an architecture of horizontal strips that repeats with a deliberately human regularity. Each band functions as a flap: it advances, yields, barely undulates, and lets its darker edge show through as a continuous line of shadow. At the centre of each half, small vertical insertions appear at intervals, like a discreet seam that holds the system together without imposing itself.
The palette remains within off-whites, warm greys and very pale ochres, modulated by a fine speckling that runs across the surface. This stippling, mineral in character, densifies the field and makes it porous, so that the light is not reflected in a flat manner, but fragments into hundreds of small vibrations. The black joints, thin and persistent, delineate the stacking and lend a restrained графия.
At the top, a taut blue line, close to the edge, cools and orders: it functions as a cornice and as a horizon. Seen in profile, the work confirms its object-like condition: the relief projects with a measured depth, so that the lighting settles on the crests and withdraws into the grooves, activating a slow rhythm between wall, shutter and swell.
