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In
Illo Tempore
Recent paintings and projects by VICENTE
PASCUAL
Exhibition:
January
16 - February 22, 2003
The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is very pleased
to announce an exhibition of paintings and projects by Spanish artist
Vicente Pascual.
Pascual's refined work is characterized by centralized arrangements
of extremely simple geometric forms on generally monochromatic grounds.
When one views his canvasses, once experiences the presence of unity
in the manifold and the timeless in what is temporal. His paintings
also represent a harmonious wedding between rigor and freedom like
the cosmos itself in which one observes the presence of rigor, of
geometry and of laws combined with the freedom and exuberance of
life and its transformations.
Vicente Pascual's images are almost readable symbols. They have
a clarity of design like that of a national flag, and the interactions
of geometric designs offer a lucid visual drama: two yellow circles
partially conjoin, and the space occupied by both circles has a
higher-keyed brightness, for example. The ground is rich in these
paintings, with the watery markings and textures of its application,
and never seems static.
Since his first solo exhibition at the Galería Atenas in
Zaragoza in 1971, Pascual's work has been subject of more
than 70 solo shows; it has recently been surveyed in a major
retrospective at the Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca. His work
is in numerous international collections including Indiana University
Art Museum, Bloomington; The Hispanic Society of America Museum,
New York; and La Caixa, Barcelona.
Vicente Pascual has lived in Washington, DC since 1999.
The exhibition is accompanied by a brochure with essays by Professor
Seyyed
Hossein Nasr and Lenore Miller.
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Consonantia
et Adecuatio IV
Acrylic on Canvas, 32" by 32"
© Vicente Pascual, 2002
Imago
Mundi XXXII
Acrylic on Canvas, 32" by 32"
© Vicente Pascual, 2002
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