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We live in the world of the rise of Artificial Intelligence, social networks, great (and accelerated) technological changes and algorithms, where virtual art is increasingly making its way, with immersive museums and interactive proposals.
In this context, we can ask ourselves: Is geometric abstraction experiencing a revival? Maybe we just have to look around us to find the answer.
In the dentist's office, I focused on a dental lighting spotlight to extract this series of photographs for La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos marked by the inspiration of geometric abstraction.
The images show us that everyday life can be inspiring and sometimes it is shown to us without being able to classify what it evokes in a certain vision of reality. In this case, this abstraction that appears to us captured in the snapshots with its dynamic, moving colors, as if suggesting that we not catch it.
Geometric abstraction is based on the use of simple geometric figures that do not have any figurative meaning, as seen in these photographs arising from the observation of a spotlight in the dentist's office.
Most of these works are characterized by using one-dimensional figures, frontal and sometimes overlapping each other, in search of a purer and more spiritual art.
Geometric abstraction is characterized by minimalism and a highly structured composition, although free and creative composition.
Another element that can lead us to a rebirth of geometric abstraction is the historical moment in which Europe finds itself, a continent that, once again, is home to another war and in a climate of growing warmongering in public discourses.
In the last century, artists found a new form of inspiration in geometric abstraction. So much so that we find it in the main European avant-garde, such as in constructivism (a utopian amalgam that had a profound development when the Bolsheviks achieved victory in the October Revolution of 1917) and Russian suprematism (its objective was to focus on the fundamental figures, such as the square and the circle, in order to explore the expressive capacities of certain structures by themselves). Also in the Bauhaus school in Germany and in Art Deco, to give other examples that serve as a reference for us today.
