Tra Parentesi Exp1 2018

This painting by Alfio Giuffrida is a party of geometric shapes and lines in red, white, orange, and blue, all playing out on a pale green background. It's like a structural drawing of a tree growing out of a bright red pot. I'm thinking about how the artist constructed this image, each decision and mark contributing to the overall balance. It's flat and graphic, but there's a depth to the composition, a sense of things fitting together, just so. You can feel the artist's hand in the precise arrangement of forms, like an engineer and a gardener rolled into one. Giuffrida's got me thinking about other artists who walk this line between abstraction and representation, those who build their own worlds through the language of painting. There’s something very playful about this image. It sparks joy.