‘Ventana’ By Marcos Guzman

‘Ventana’, the Spanish word for window, presents new jewellery and textile works by Marcos Guzman. Guzman’s hints at a story, a few seconds of still frames from a bigger picture, like a framed view to a larger world. His forms, colours and materials – subtly detailed and boldly graphic – generate visual cues that amplify our sense of something happening beyond the frame. Part visual artist, part poet, Guzman’s works are particular combinations of word and material that can both transport us and focus our attention.

Best known for his jewellery, Guzman’s often minimalist and abstract compositions of acrylic shapes are here reworked into soft paintings, textile works that become a canvas for compositional and spatial interpretations. Drawing on the inheritance of artists such as Anni and Josef Albers, these textile works take the relationships of colour and shape as their starting points, but are replete with suggested narratives and references, further hinted at through the poetic titles that accompany the work.

Quiet, trivial circumstances, moments of well-being, a small dilemma or plight, suggest minor narratives that can go unremarked and forgotten: Guzman is drawn to the challenge of finding a expression for these fleeting things.