Composicion Concreta 1959

Curator: Hello! Editor: Welcome. I’m excited to discuss Sandu Darie's "Composicion Concreta" from 1959. The work, seemingly rendered in acrylic, presents this really compelling puzzle of geometric shapes, and, at first blush, the interplay of earth tones against brighter yellows sort of gives me the impression of a stained-glass window fractured by the sun. What do you make of it? Curator: That’s a fantastic initial read, absolutely! "Fractured stained-glass," I love that imagery because that interplay suggests an underlying sacred geometry striving to reveal itself. It seems, to me, that Darie attempts to create a visual language rooted in pure form, shedding any representational narrative. I’m curious, does that pursuit of 'pure form' impact your understanding or connection with the painting at all? Editor: I think it almost makes me want to look for a hidden code, if that makes sense? I guess the emphasis on shape and color pulls me away from searching for any specific meaning, and encourages this almost mathematical interpretation. Curator: Precisely! It's an invitation to embrace art's intrinsic qualities, wouldn't you agree? This composition invites a deep dive into how the lines intersect and colors vibrate and speak to each other independently. Maybe it’s also like Darie offers us a map. Whether that map is of our own internal landscape… Or just a delightful and sunny abstraction—is joyfully up to the viewer. Editor: I love that— a joyful map to everywhere and nowhere! I hadn’t considered that it invites you to interpret space in a new way. Thanks! Curator: The pleasure was all mine! The abstract awaits us, just at the limits of the eye... Bye for now.