René Ugarte: Structures et Convergences

Espace Meyer Zafra is pleased to present “Structures and Convergences”, a solo exhibition by Venezuelan artist René Ugarte. From March 27 to May 1, 2025, the exhibition will bring together works made from acrylic on wood and plexiglass. 

 

“René Ugarte’s works on wood, canvas and plexiglass appear as a relatively simple configuration of purely formal elements: colours, shapes, lines and planes. The lines cross the painting horizontally, vertically and diagonally. They form an irregular grid containing flat, rectangular areas of colour. The arrangement is asymmetrical, but the way in which these blocks of colour are associated in the painting maintains an impression of balance and visual unity. And yet, if everything seems simple and structured at first glance, we quickly realise when faced with the works that Ugarte’s rigorous geometry is illusory. Indeed, he plays with ambiguity and dynamics to achieve destructuring. This is what interests the artist above all: using the simplest means to arrive at a new reading.” - Gilbert Browstone

 

The exhibition Structure and Convergences is, in the words of René Ugarte, “a set of structures organised in a space around geometric elements which, repeated, will create a unitary visual reading. Each structure is dependent on the other because it is in an idea of ​​series that we find the notion of convergence: convergence of straight lines heading towards common points, squares, rectangles, planes of color arranged in a precise place but dislocated by the dynamic exterior of the lines. The reading of this whole ensemble is seen as a single and unique order”.

 

Structures and Convergences brings together a selection of works that illustrate the culmination of Ugarte’s research on fragmentation and formal instability. His work is based on a subtle play of balances and imbalances, where the apparent rigidity of geometric forms is thwarted by interventions that alter their cohesion.

 

Through a thoughtful use of contrasts, interruptions and juxtapositions, Ugarte creates an effect of tension in the pictorial space. Each painting thus becomes a field of experimentation, where the architecture of the image is made and unmade before the viewer’s gaze.

 

This exhibition highlights the artist’s rigorous work, which explores the interactions between elementary forms, superpositions and chromatic compositions in order to deconstruct the apparent order of the painting and create a dialogue between structure and chaos.