Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, USA

ABOUT THE WORK

Alfonso Ossorio forged a visual language that was steeped in the dynamism and cyclical movements of life, as evidenced by this work. At the center is a rotating band of energy (inflected with a star-like shape in its heart), as other spheres spiral and rotate around this central hub in a kind of a universal dance that is at once graceful and vigorous. All interrelated to each other, the spheres organize themselves into the blueprint of creation itself — from the movement of the atoms to the great rotations of heavenly bodies. Using a bright and explosive palette, Osorio primarily employs the colors of the natural world, as if to underscore the life-giving energy that connects all of creation. Ossorio has been honored with capsule retrospective shows recently, such as the Afflictions of Glory, which was exhibited at León Gallery. Cutting a unique, contradictory figure, Ossorio was the result of the confluence of various cultures, living passionately and surrounded by like-minded compatriots. His self-created enclave called the Creeks in upstate New York was an incubator of ideas, particularly those that are related to abstract Expressionism, of which Ossorio was one of the more passionate practitioners and advocates.