In the 1980s, Vicente Fuenmayor worked largely within the field of abstraction, with a special concern for the creation of spatial sensations with a strong emotional impact.

This work, painted broadly around the same time as the exhibition New Painting from Valencia in New York (1982), belongs to Fuenmayor’s most important creative period. The artist himself underscores the prominence of the “gesture” in his work, which he defines as an “embrace of impotence, the remnants of colour to rivet the gaze in the invisible.”

The studied gesturality and the soft-toned chromatic contrast round off this elegant and dynamic piece, worthy of attentive observation.