FORMS HAVE ATTITUDE

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Mateo Revillo’s exhibition at NISO continues the gallery’s sustained interest in practices where form is generated from within, where matter, structure and time operate as conditions of thought. In this context, painting becomes a field in which form emerges through material and temporal processes.

The works presented at NISO appear as open surfaces, sometimes fractured or displaced. They read as panels shaped through processes of breaking, repairing and reconfiguring.

Colour is organised in fields that evoke architectural remnants — surfaces that have undergone transformation and whose origin remains partially obscured. The pieces seem like fragments of a larger structure, recovered and reorganized.

Two distinct temporal regimes inhabit these works. Revillo describes them as a before and an after that remain structurally irreducible. Like tectonic plates, each belongs to a different order of pictorial thought. Their encounter produces friction, pressure and discontinuity.

The work occurs in that zone of contact, where different times remain active simultaneously.