Tower 1990

Roberto Aizenberg made this ‘Tower’ painting, and I can imagine him carefully building it, layer upon layer, with brushstrokes both deliberate and intuitive. The painting is like a schematic, a plan, or maybe a child's drawing. But the very particular combination of apple green, black, pale blue, and brown, elevate it beyond pure form. I'm always so curious about other artists' colour choices. Sometimes, the constraint of a limited palette can generate surprisingly powerful, concentrated effects. I wonder if he was thinking about the towers of other painters like Giorgio de Chirico, or maybe he was just experimenting with the simplest of shapes? The edges are so sharp, the stripes so precise. It gives the painting a strange, still feeling. Ultimately, painting is a form of exchange. We look, we wonder, we respond. Aizenberg's ‘Tower’ becomes part of our own visual vocabulary, feeding our creative imagination.