THE VOID AND SANDRA SANSEVERINO, AT PIRAMIDÓN
By Álvaro de Benito
The Piramidón Contemporary Art Center in Barcelona presents the exhibition La Forma del Vacío (The Shape of the Void) by Sandra Sanseverino (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971). The artist is a regular resident of the center, and her most recent residency lasted until May of this year, during which she continued to focus on her research into painting, art as a practice, and spirituality.
In this exhibition, Sanseverino presents part of her most recent pictorial work, where one can appreciate the maximum utility and functionality of a deliberate restriction of materials. Frequent in her work, black acrylic, India ink, and graphite are approached through different actions and arrangements to explore the dimensions of darkness and the void.
In this practiced pictorial abstraction, a certain spirituality is interwoven as a structuring concept. Her technical process is instrumental to reflection, but also a goal in itself. Technique is in itself a reflection, and the void is the result of the process through which ideas materialize by means of painting.
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Sandra Sanseverino. Sin título, 2025. Óleo negro sobre cartón, 105 x 75 cm. Cortesía Piramidón
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Sandra Sanseverino. Sin título, 2025. Gofrado n7 sobre papel Arches, 102 x 66 cm. Cortesía Piramidón
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Sandra Sanseverino. Sin título, 2025. Técnica mixta: tinta china y acrílico sobre lino belga n1 & 2, 164 x 84,5 cm (c/u). Cortesía Piramidón
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Sandra Sanseverino. Sin título, 2025. Óleo negro sobre cartón, 80 x 70 cm. Cortesía Piramidón
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Sandra Sanseverino. Sin título, 2025. Gofrado n3 sobre papel negro. Papel Clairefontaine multi-techniques 250g, 20,5 x 14,5 cm (c/u). Cortesía Piramidón
Sanseverino employs different techniques and supports beyond the search for a form, rather as an aesthetic response. The result, in that materiality, reveals superimposed layers, strokes, transparencies, and opacities with which, from the very construction and execution of the idea, that dark space is encompassed.
La Forma del Vacío can be seen until September 16 at Piramidón, Contemporary Art Center, Concili de Trento 313, Barcelona (Spain).
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