Estrutura Ambígua IV 1969

Eduardo Nery made this ambiguous structure sometime during his lifetime with paint on canvas. It is warm, really warm, like a crazy heatwave. The colours shift from reds to browns and oranges. I can imagine Eduardo, brush in hand, carefully plotting each cube, probably not carefully, but more like intuitively. I feel the push and pull, and the back and forth of colours as he tries to resolve this ambiguous structure. It's almost like a puzzle to be solved. The flat colours and hard edges of the shapes remind me of the op artists of the 1960s, like Bridget Riley, who were also interested in perception and how the eye interprets visual information. Yet this feels different, more intuitive. It's like he is inviting us to play, make errors, and find our way through the canvas.