ABSTRACT
Between imagination, the perception of the world and poetic reason, which comprises both the poiesis and the praxis, the productive act is experienced and the poetic place is revealed, between identity and otherness; subjectivity and objectivity; visible and invisible; formal and informal; and between the world in the strictest sense (what we believe to be real) and the ineffable (mysterious and virtual). In this interwoven and dynamically fertile tension of the endeavor, understood as poetic, where these realities are articulated, the poetic place is generated and form as a process and the non-objective space of the works we present is embodied, between the real, the image and the imaginary: in Las Meninas by Velázquez, in the Carceri d’invenzione by Piranesi, and in many works of modern and contemporary art, such as the drawings by Giacometti, the paintings by Vieira da Silva, and the imaginal paintings by Palazuelo. They are places and landscapes that bring out the value of the relationship between figure and background, and the constant interactivity between all the polarities contained therein. Besides aesthetics, these are poetic places, authentic in-between places that are alive; borderline and imprecise in their limits; between creation, transformation and metamorphosis; in a constant un-veiling or pro-duction of presence, that emerge and are presented here in that tense, dynamic and imprecise relationship of ambiguity and reversibility between figure-background, negative-positive, plane and depth. They are imagined places and landscapes, in which form exists in permanent evolution and difference, appealing to an active receiver who, in his or her relationship with the work, is “moved” and transformed, activating imagination and memory, and releasing the creative impulse.
