Ronaldo Grossman

At first sight RONALDO GROSSMAN's paintings could take us back to concrete art and, through its merely apparent effects, to a certain lineage of op art. However, the questions guiding his work go well beyond the fashions and ethics of these historical references.



Enlightened by science and technology, concrete art forms were deployed accordingly to the scientific laws put forth by gestalt theory, in accordance with a systematic program, a serial suit, most of the time conceived to symmetrically obey the unyielding rules of industrial mechanization. The artist was left with the sole task of being but the designer of shapes, the one who plans out a beholder friendly and instantaneous message by mastering the laws of geometry's vocabulary.



The concretist artist, like most of modern tradition's constructivists, nurtured the dream of interfering in the social bedrock of the industrial world, working their way with their methods in order to finally stir the universe of shapes to the climax of sensitivity itself. Altogether, at the wheel of concretism lied a desire to follow the footsteps of industry's standardized serial production, to hail progressivism's ideals of technique, updating this plot into programmatic, predict...

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