Eugenio Espinoza's Return to Color at Galleria Umberto Di Marino

Eugenio Espinoza's second solo show at Galleria Umberto Di Marino in Naples, titled 'Tre stanze, tre mesi' (Three Rooms, Three Months), marks a chromatic shift from his signature black-and-white grids to primary colors—red, yellow, blue, and ochre—evoking Neoplasticism. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a single dispersed work, with canvases interacting with space and viewers. Espinoza, born in San Juan de los Morros in 1950, is known for his abstract grids that reject South American traditional expressionism. Here, his grids are altered with organic materials, folded, and suspended. Textual elements appear in some works, prompting new meanings. References include Dürer's Renaissance grids, Gego's 'drawings in space,' Gerd Leufert's monochromes, and Lucio Fontana's Spatialism. The grid manifests not only in painted lines but also in pleated canvases, suggesting transience. Works like 'Green 2020' and 'Tutti' leave lower canvas sections hanging, while 'Griglia illuminata' uses gravity to distort straight lines, balancing rationality with irrationality. The exhibition runs in 2022.