Graciela Hasper: Unexpected

Graciela Hasper's painting can be appreciated as paradoxes: their objective form, which continues the tradition of a chromatic and playful abstraction, is also emotional. Her painting remains free of all imitation and, at the same time, within the ribbons, circles and squares, the pure, saturated and vibrant colors share material without mixing but merely by modifying the tone or value. Emotion is transferred from the act of painting to that of perception, to the subjectivity of the sensations that colors produce or inspire. Hasper's painting captures the gaze and seduces with a pleasurable movement that, nonetheless, lacks a center. These are compositions that break away from the concept of stability by not having a fixed point upon which to gaze. The work never loses confidence in itself and in the possibility of continuing through the wall, of breaking the limit of the frame, but conserves its quality of dynamism within equilibrium. Unlike the concrete tradition, the wall is not a force field but rather the expansion of autonomous forms.

Hasper's painting is beautiful in itself, as Plato posits in the Philebus, unrelated to anything outside. It affects the viewer because it acts simultaneously with the fluidity of the shape, preferably curved, and the emotion of color. It allows us to move from practical subjects tied to reality to aesthetic subjectsby projecting ourselves into the object.