Colégio do Sagrado Coração de Maria, Lisboa 2001

Eduardo Nery created this glass window at the Colégio do Sagrado Coração de Maria in Lisbon, and it feels as though he painted with light. Imagine Nery, a painter and sculptor, thinking about how light moves and shifts throughout the day. It’s pretty clear that he worked with these modular grids a lot. The colors and shapes feel so alive, almost like a Mondrian but with a party hat on. I can feel the geometry here, that architectural structure. The quadrants are so satisfying, it gives me a sense of serenity and balance, like the artist found a way to capture a rainbow in a box. It’s like Nery is reminding us that even within the strictest frameworks, there’s always room to let color run wild. It is a reminder that art is an ongoing experiment, a dialogue across time and space.