Composition 1965

Curator: This intriguing artwork is entitled "Composition" by Leo Leuppi, created in 1965. The medium seems to explore hand-printed techniques with interesting embossing and imprints. Editor: It feels stark, almost like an archeological find rendered in monochrome. The geometric shapes and torn fragments evoke a sense of both order and chaos. Curator: I concur, and find myself fascinated by the artist’s deliberate manipulation of form. Note the repetition of circular and square motifs. These basic geometric figures feel less like forms and more like coded ideas. Observe how they relate spatially, creating an intriguing visual tension. Editor: Absolutely. Circles are often symbolic of wholeness or cycles, squares represent stability or foundation. This layering with seemingly ripped segments points towards fragmentation or deconstruction of such established ideals, doesn't it? The artist is proposing something is destroyed or disassembled. Curator: Yes, the surface's texture further enhances that effect of visual disruption, the 'chalky' feel is very appropriate here, to denote destruction of old things in its surface alone. There is almost a deliberate lack of precision in those fragments that contrast quite vividly with perfect geometries in its center, creating what Saussure would define as a game of difference for the image. Editor: Also, considering its period, it reminds me a bit about certain iconoclasts from the avant-garde. Destroy the image, rip the paper. Curator: Indeed. It allows us to contemplate a deeper philosophical perspective embedded within seemingly simple geometric compositions. The image becomes its own commentary about construction and deconstruction as visual process. Editor: It does make you question our inclination for symbols, our ways of meaning, whether these abstract or imposed concepts are bound to fall and tear apart into unrecognisable portions in the face of chaos, right? Curator: Precisely. What begins as a rigid structured whole morphs slowly through a constant flux as form itself transforms into matter by its textures. Fascinating dialogue. Editor: The artist provides ample room for personal projection and reflection about order, deconstruction, memory and the ephemeral.