N-300 1960

Luis Feito conjured 'N-300' with oil paint and a very limited palette – mostly greys, browns, and blacks – that emerge and recede from a cloudy white space. Look how Feito is dragging his brush, and pushing around the pigment, almost like he's wiping it across the canvas, again and again, in a dance of trial and error. I wonder what it felt like for Feito to wrestle with this thing? I can almost feel the weight of his hand and the pressure of his arm as he made it. See that dark red splotch? It’s like a wound, or a portal, anchoring the composition. It feels incredibly physical, rooted in the body. Feito was part of a generation exploring abstraction, alongside artists like Antoni Tàpies. They were all feeling their way through this new language of form, color, and gesture, trying to find something true and authentic. Painting becomes an open-ended experiment, a conversation with the medium itself and with other artists.