Ricardo Brey
(c)photo: Isabel Brey, Ghent - Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Ricardo Brey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The Book of Hours, 2014
"The boxes are an attempt to represent the intensifications of internal modes and their relationships in spatial terms; and what results is a 'hermeneutics of the soul' that creates 'a topography of the mind.' Articulated like a labyrinth or mandala, Brey considers the box-mind compound the 'most metaphysical project' he had attempted, nothing less than 'a workshop to produce the invisible' or 'the countless' that is also 'the way out and the jail.' Cavernous, secret, spatialized, architectural and imagistic, the boxes are a locus for the transaction of 'a spectacular alchemical game between qualtities, elements and senses.' They are figures of containment -lockers, shells, receptacles, vessels, bodies -that may shelter only nothingness or evacuated will. Though cubic in form their spheres of influence is circular. Produced in a series without numbers and end, they contain openings within openings and hidden compartments that may never be found. These activation potentials betoken an elemental fraction of the total project that is held in reserve in order to conjugate its 'fortune and power.'"
(Welchman, J., Que le importa al Tigre una Raya Más: The Futility of Good Intentions, 2014, p.55.)
Books:
Untitled, leporello book, 26 (x19) x 420 cm
Untitled, leporello book, 26 (x19) x 310cm
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