Componenti antagoniste 1973

Galliano Mazzon created this image using bold geometric forms painted with precision. The red sets the stage for a tightly composed drama of shapes. It’s like he's staging a play with geometry, and color is his main character. I like how Mazzon plays with the materiality of paint, creating a smooth surface that almost looks like a print. There's a push and pull between the flat picture plane and the illusion of depth. The white shapes have a slight, almost imperceptible, tonality to them. These subtle shifts create an interesting contrast to the vivid background. Mazzon's work reminds me of early modernist explorations, like those of El Lissitzky. Both were playing with abstraction to evoke a sense of utopian vision, but Mazzon does so with such a restricted palette that it’s almost as if he’s whispering a secret. This piece embraces the power of simplicity, suggesting that less really can be more.