The atmosphere and strategies of an era in which novelty, youth, political turmoil, ethical and aesthetic commitment, declarations and manifestos, controversy, search for new languages, and the decline of academism played the leading role, witnesses of the rise of an abstract movement that embraced and still embraces, to this day, different styles and techniques. Rayonism, Lyrical Abstraction, Constructivism, Suprematism, Neoplasticism, Abstract Expressionism, and Informalism, are styles that establish the formal, chromatic, and structural aspects.
From a process of foreshortening, image purification, and the Inventionist Manifesto, artists look for correspondences, contrasts, or variations from gestures, tones, and values. Diagonal brushstrokes, rhomboid shapes, figures with acute angles, and some curved and circular shape games established new imaginary.
The shift from realism to abstraction is a journey that, retrospectively, underlines the transition from early figuration and thoughtful studies on form, to pure geometry that prioritizes the chromatic structure.
Abstract Duty, Galería Azur’s new group show, highlights research processes of dematerialization of the form. At the same time, it looks deeper into the aesthetic and compositional search of artists seeking to uncover an expression capable of taking the lead – a unique and enduring identity in reality.

Ceres González
Art Curator and Art Critic. GALERIA AZUR
PHYSICAL & DIGITAL EXHIBITION
FEATURED ARTISTS
Pipi Saenz (AR)
Eveline Stauffer (CH)
Maria Mueller Atelier (DE)
Rina Murao (JP)
Lena Katrin Weber (DE)
Olivier Petit-Helle (FR)
Karin Anita Morris (AU)
Antoine Neybourger (FR)
Meghan Faith Albee (US)
Ricardo Tadeu Barros (PT)
Rodrigo Ruiz (MX)
Koki Nishimawari (JP)
Laureline Françoise Nicolas Veelo (BE)
Beatriz Zerolo (ES)
Elva Bahvalova (LV)
Artworks

blow_up
FROM JAN 12 TO FEB 11 / 2023

CRYSTAL SILENCE
FROM DEC 8 TO JAN 2 / 2022-2023

SUBTEXTS
FROM NOV 21 TO DEC 12 / 2022

DREAMLAND
FROM OCT 27 TO NOV 21 / 2022

HEART BEAT
FROM: OCT 13 TO NOV 7 / 2022

EUPHORIA
FROM SEPT 8 TO OCT 3 / 2022

JUAN PINILLA. La pintura guiando al pueblo.
FROM SEPT 29 TO OCT 13

ABSTRACT DUTY
FROM: JULY 28 TO AUGUST 22

HYPNOTIC
FROM: JULY 28 TO AUGUST 22

ANY OLD TIME
FROM JANUARY 13 UNTIL FEB 13 / 2022

SEEING ABSTRACTION
FROM JANUARY 13 UNTIL FEB 13 / 2022

REBELLION
FROM JULY 23 UNTIL AGO 23 / 2021

PLASTICITY
FROM JUNE 11 UNTIL JULY 6 / 2022

GENESIS
FROM JUNE 11 UNTIL JULY 6 / 2022

PARADOX
FROM OCTOBER 7 UNTIL NOVEMBER 7

MODERN ARCHETYPES
FROM SEPTEMBER 2 UNTIL OCTOBER 2 / 2021

FLÂNERIE
FROM JULY 23 UNTIL AGO 23 / 2021

ECLIPSE
FROM JANUARY 13 UNTIL FEB 13 / 2022

AD ASTRA
FROM NOV 18 UNTIL DEC 18 / 2021

STRIPPED
FROM JUNE 30 UNTIL JULY 25/2022

ORVIS
FROM JUNE 23 UNTIL JULY 18 / 2022

DEVENIR TORO. Fotografías por Andrés Calamaro. Curada por Rodrigo Cañete
FROM MAY 15 UNTIL JUNE 1ST / 2021