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

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Throughout the 1990s, Arturo Luz worked on his Celebration series, producing a system of geometric shapes and reducing his palette to black, gray, and toluidine red. With this series, Luz essentially created human still lifes and an assembly of figures whose body parts were assigned specific geometric forms: a semicircle for the head, twin triangles of unequal size meeting at their apex representing the torso, splayed lines to distinguish the legs, and twisting lines for the arms. Luz created his recognizable iconography of human figures through a stark replication of lines done meticulously and a vivid imagination and evocation. Pervaded by his nostalgic reminiscences of his childhood perya, Luz recast the familiar circus figures into deliberated lines and shapes. In Performance, playfulness and revelry fill the canvas, albeit derived from the precision of placement. Luz’s tendency towards starkness and simplicity manifests his minimalist approach that is systematically executed through a disciplined technique. This orientation is also clearly discernible in the diminution of color. His linear coherence, logical abstraction, and mastery of geometric forms are exhibited. With the juxtaposition of black figures with a red backdrop, Luz shows the divergent yet harmonious relationship between negative and positive spaces