"Geometry and color"
Juan Cuenca & Amaya O´Neill
from November 6, 2025 to January 3, 2026
Juan Cuenca and Amaya ONeill dialogue in the exhibition ‘Geometry and Colour’.
"The path that visual arts open by the cultivation of abstraction delves into two kinds of realities: the subjective products of the human psyche—emotions and feelings—and the objective abstractions of scientific concepts, arithmetic, and geometry. This distinction is relevant here because it is through geometry that Amaya O'Neill and Juan Cuenca establish a poetic connection with the world, in which the artistic character of all works of art resides...."
"...Juan Cuenca seeks to obtain abstract forms that satisfy his subjective aesthetic sensibility, but he does so by allowing the objective laws of geometry and the plasticity of materials to express themselves, so to speak. It seems as if, in his state of creative trance, he is possessed by the material.
This is an introspective method that is not at all strange for an architect, almost literally the Eduardo Torroja's recommendation, according to which the structural designer should feel the structure in his own body in order to understand its balance and operation, as an exercise in order to design more efficient and aesthetic solutions, and more in accordance with the material's elastoplastic characteristics...."
"...Amaya O'Neill seems to start from this axiom: to perceive is to think, to enter the paths of thought from its earliest historical formulations, linked to geometry since ancient times. ‘Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here’, read a solemn sign on the frontispiece of Plato's Academy. The Athenian philosopher proclaims the connection between geometric reasoning and the pursuit of philosophical truth, suggesting that geometry is a gateway to understanding the universe. ..."
Excerpts from Guillermo Díaz Vargas' text for this exhibition.