PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF A DISTINGUISHED COUPLE

ABOUT THE WORK

Augusto Albor’s works are never meant to be a window into the visible reality. His art is committed to the ambitious task of translating physics into painting. And as an artist who is grounded in the imageless image, his acrylic piece entitled Element in Time #2 is a view into the seemingly invisible. His use of the color gray adds to the inexpressibility of the abstraction. Gray is the color of intellect: exuding such qualities as refinement, enigma, and restraint. “Abstraction, after all, is a language of the spirit, but the practice of which, alas, can easily lead to a visual sorry mess, as if the artist had painted with his eyes closed and hoped for the best,” wrote Cid Reyes on the exhibition catalog for Albor’s “Era.” “As we all know, modern art is about new ideas — it has become the mantra of some artists whose visions aim for progress — navigate an open-ended channel. Therefore we grow and mature collectively, we come up with our own unique visual language,” Albor said. In 1995, when this piece was made, Albor held a solo show titled “Lie Detector” at the Crucible Gallery and was in a group exhibit titled “Albor, Olazo, Lao” at The Luz Gallery. (P.I.R.)