Heny Steinberg

In her recent paintings, Eny Steinberg is carrying out a spatial research.

She is looking for compartmentalization; organizing a two-dimensional space existing in a vacuum, into the expressions involved. She is assessing the territories we inhabit.
Persistently she shows enormous deserts.

We are used to saturation and to face the dilemma of space being slowly vanished in the cities. The urban paradox stems from the apparent space congestion.
No wonder her work uses the city as a framework. The city has weighed and measured our sensibility and intellect.
Our understanding of the contemporary city is directly linked to the way in which we go about and live. The periphery of the city and the never-ending hours we spend sitting in vehicles makes us grasp the enormous areas sectioned in lots lacking of human scale.

Therefore, the acrylics on canvas by the Mexican painter show desolate extensions. Reduced to the incipient urban tracing. Highlighting the vacuum.
Similar to the Zen Buddhist mu (void-nothingness), her proposal is to be empty and turn into basins where the world will flow and reverberate. Steinberg's plains/containers facilitate the observation of the plowing through the vacuum. Without any constructio...

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