Katarina Balunova, Perrin Blackman, John Francis, Gerard van der Horst, Gerda Kruimer, Marilyn Chapin Massey, Tadeusz Mysłowski, OSTER+KOEZLE, Gianfranco Spada, Joa Zak.
27/2 – 20/3 2020
Curator | Mark Starel
XS Gallery | Institute of Visual Arts | Jan Kochanowski University | Kielce | Poland
This is the second of a series of seven international exhibitions dedicated to Discursive Geometry.
The exhibition explores contemporary geometry as a language for understanding and reconfiguring space. Moving beyond the avant-garde tradition of reducing landscape to simple abstraction, the works treat it as a dynamic system where human presence, geography, and memory intersect. Lines, grids, and geometric forms become tools to articulate motion, perception, and spatial relationships rather than mere compositional devices.
Gianfranco Spada’s Geometric Enigma translates architectural forms into abstract paintings, distilling essential structures while preserving spatial logic and rhythm. Similarly, John Francis engages with mapping strategies, visualizing patterns of human movement across urban spaces, turning everyday transit into poetic geometric structures. Perrin Blackman, on the other hand, explores the interplay of repetition and color in modular forms, generating visual systems that evoke both rhythm and spatial tension.
Together, these works demonstrate how geometry can operate as both analytical and poetic: structuring experience without imposing narrative, generating new visual languages that invite the viewer to consider the interplay between order, perception, and environment.