Vicente Antonorsi
La Cuadra, Caracas
Vicente Antonorsi (Caracas, 1952) presents an exhibition in which he contrasts the geometric and the rational. To do this, he utilizes thin, plywood boards (processed and glued together) as textural and volumetric element. In this way, he inquires into the primal roots with an eye on the rational and on nature. He later applies industrial procedures in the finishing stage.
In a first proposal, the pieces allude to the unfolding of prisms that gradually split up to form new volumes. Here his training as an architect prevails. In a parallel way, he develops “the columns”, deformed parallelepids based on the textiles designed by the Piaroa indians of Venezuela the artist is also an industrial designer. This is evidenced by the elaborate textures of the column surfaces. In every case, what prevails is pleasure in the handling of the material even the excess of glue resulting from the superposition of elements is left untouched, since it is considered part of the work. There is a rejoicing in color and tones. These are simple objects from the formal point of view, but they are elaborate in terms of their execution. While this would appear to be a contradiction, these objects are rich in details but they do not lose the essence of simplicity.
