Provenance: Private Collection, Makati City

ABOUT THE WORK

One of the foremost abstractionists working today, Gus Albor has been exploring the capacity of color to fashion a realm of sensation and insight. In this work, Upward Solution, Albor looks into the verticality of color to ofer new meaning into the duality of black and white. With the presence of a bar which is rendered “hard-edged,” the work shows neither equivalences nor transitions but stark — almost irreconcilable—differences despite the fact that each side has been made “impure” by the other. This painting prompts a more geometric version of “yin-and-yang” without the mystical obfuscation. What the work achieves is a bold and illuminating statement on the fundamental separateness of light and dark, as well as their eternal relationality.