Painel de azuulejos de padrão 1981

Eduardo Nery made this tile panel with ceramic, using a simple and striking geometric pattern in blue and yellow. The process of making art is a dance, right? A back-and-forth where the artist makes a move, and the materials respond. I like how the surface isn't trying to be perfect. There's a wobble to those lines, a slight pooling of glaze that reveals the hand. That electric blue—it’s not uniform, it shifts and breathes, which gives a certain vitality to this pattern. Look at the way those yellow bands create nested diamond shapes, playing with positive and negative space. The texture on the tile surface, the slight irregularities, they’re not mistakes, they’re part of the story. They give the eye something to hold onto, a sense of the real. This piece reminds me a little of Sol Lewitt, who also used geometry in interesting ways. But these tiles have a warmth and handmade quality all their own. Art isn't about answers; it's about the questions, the conversations, the possibilities.