Accompanied by a certificate issued by Luisa Luz Lansigan
confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

As noted by Emmanuel Torres in the art book “Drawings” by Arturo Rogerio Luz, the figuration of Arturo Luz travels from simplification to greater simplification and towards an abstraction that comes very close to non-objectivity. Evolving from full, figurative compositions into pruned expressions of geometrical clarity, his ability to instill a sense of architectural balance into his paintings is inimitable; the quality of drawing and draughtsmanship is a major element of his works. When Luz’s works became increasingly stylised and modernist, figuration has been desquamated to skeleton forms within a pictorial environment swirling with non - representational punctuation such as circles, dots, arrowheads, parentheses, asterisks, and/or wisps of lines moving in space, as seen within Performance in Yellow, a resplendent example of Luz’s continuous visual preoccupations. The lineal aesthetics, architectural chic and a monochromatic tendency, described the work of Arturo Luz but no one expounds the principle of painting better than the artist himself: “Everything I do I invent. I invent my material, I invent my own anatomy. I am after the gesture of the figure, the bone, the structure, and not the surface.”