Viewing Room
season 2020 – 2021

The trajectory of the Mexican GT Pellizzi,stands out from the creation of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, a collective of artists conceived from the fictitious figure of a deceased sculptor and that pursues the intervention in the public space and the relationship with the community, caring about the condition of the subject in society. Pellizzi decided to disband from the group in 2011, with the aim of starting an individual artistic career based on the use of basic materials.
In the Complex Shapes sample, he continues with this idea, starting with a range of basic colors -red, yellow, blue and green- in the pieces on display. These are generic three-dimensional objects, some hanging on the wall, others strategically placed on pedestals with classic aesthetics, which in turn describe, simplify and abstract everyday objects: boats, the sea, a landscape, etc.
This extreme reduction in basic colors inevitably refers to Piet Mondrian, in his search for the absolute, as well as establishing a strong connection with architecture.
Not in vain Pellizzi has training as an architect, and this is reflected in different planimetric distributions in many of his pieces. Blue Rectangle over Yellow Rectangle over Red Rectangle stands out, in which the author conceives a corridor from which two disordered spatial languages emanate and merge. It is precisely this confusion that provides the character of amusement to the pieces on display. When you look at the gallery as a whole, you get the impression that it is a game room and not an exhibition hall.
The author conceived the Complex Shapes pieces in an artistic residency granted by the gallery for several months on the island. It is therefore inevitable that the work on display by Pellizzi contains elements that refer to the island landscape. These are based on the obviousness of being surrounded by the sea. In the same way, the pieces produced also play with the concept of the logo since the proposal can be understood from the graphic design as the creation of a corporate image referring to the ground on which it sits and, at the same time, as pure entertainment.