Will Berry - More About the Artist
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Will Berry
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Excerpt from LA LUZ DE LOS COLORES-WILLIAM BERRY
Fernando
Gálvez de Aguinaga
Translated
by: Belinda Cornejo
Berry’s series is a masterful demonstration of the expressive
and suggestive properties of color, but it is also the result of making
concrete an adequate formal solution that allows for the “mobility” or
transfiguration of the work within his static drawing. What we can see in this
series of monotypes, or unique but gradual states of a plate, is that there is
an intricate scaffolding of lines that are in some occasions the silhouettes of
empty shapes and in others natural phenomena turned into poems. In the
foreground we see what seems to be the svelte shape of a tree that runs from
the lower end to the upper edge and that inevitably reminds us of the cypress
tree in Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry
Night; we see arabesques and intricate lines growing upwards, apparently
incarnating weeds and branches; we look at strokes that sink converging
progressively towards the middle area of the composition, creating an effect of
profundity and perspective; we notice that parting from this middle area of the
composition there are horizontal and undulating lines, which lie like the
successive folds of the mountain range that, above, cut themselves into rolls
that suggest the twirling of the wind or the curling clouds. However, this
basic scheme never seems to stand still. In each condition of the series, the
changes in chromatic distribution tell us different things, so that there are
pieces where the mountain range seems never to end in its upward ascent and
others where we feel the air powerfully penetrating the mountains. Similarly,
in one print we perceive that all the shapes are touched or tinted in gold by
the sunlight, and others where it seems that the luminous rays come from the
mountains themselves, turning the drawing into a kind of lamp for the
composition; all this, thanks to the color it is incarnating in contrast to the
background.
LA LUZ DE LOS COLORES-WILLIAM BERRY
Chichicastle Art Press
New York, New York
Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 2004
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