Pablo Armesto

(Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1970)

Fases

2011

white-lacquered metal, glass and dimmable LED strip

90 x 55 x 6 cm (each)

Inv. no. 557240

BBVA Collection Spain



Since he first started out, Pablo Armesto has been particularly fascinated with the use of light, installations and the public space to create works whose striking use of resources not generally seen in artworks, such as LED lighting, cause a deep impression.

This interest in light, a driving force behind his whole practice, has always been based on a philosophical or aesthetic concept, which, as the artist himself claims, “is more than light.”

This piece alludes to one of nature’s cycles—the moon and its various phases—bringing it closer to the human scale. Here the artist also speaks to us of the feminine. It is a work of heightened plastic simplicity yet at once strikingly geometric, not only in its formal composition but also in the chosen materials, metal and glass, both of which are present in nature.

Fases, an iconic work of great beauty, brings us into closer contact with everything we contemplate and with that magical quality with which space and time are imbued.