Serie MICRAS 2017

Requena Nozal’s ‘Serie Micras’ is a square canvas where white, blue, black, and gray shapes move diagonally. I can imagine the artist layering the viscous white paint to give it a sense of depth. It's almost like the ground, from which everything else emerges. Nozal has laid down these colors, but there's also this sense of the underpainting showing through. How often do we see the layers of a painting? Each layer here feels like a different state of mind. I bet they had to wait for the paint to dry before moving on, maybe they were making other paintings in the meantime, who knows? That blue patch is so exciting. It’s so solid, and it also acts like a void, or an absence, as if we are looking through the whiteness into something deeper. It reminds me that painters are always looking at other painters, talking to each other across time and space, maybe pushing back, maybe agreeing.