Urban Effect 2015

Here's Rodrigo Franzao's ‘Urban Effect,’ with its vibrant colours, patchwork shapes, and hard-edged lines. I can just imagine him piecing this thing together, colour by colour, line by line, almost like he's building a city from scratch. The ground of the work feels alive, those lines vibrate against one another and against the blocks of flat, saturated colour. The colour isn't trying to trick you into thinking it's real. It's flat out artificial. I love how these bold, geometric shapes kind of float on top of that field of clashing, vibrant stripes. They remind me a bit of city blocks, or maybe even just scraps of coloured paper. And then those dark lines, like pathways or maybe just the memory of an axonometric drawing. It makes me wonder: Is this what it feels like to live in a city? All this buzzing energy and unexpected connections? It's a conversation that never ends and keeps us all evolving.