Construcción Lineal: Cisco Merel

The artistic trajectory followed by Cisco Merel has led him to walk the frontiers of his own discourse, continually in revision and transformation. His work has wandered between the figurative and the abstract; between painting, sculpture and new materials; between the solidity of the bodies and the conciseness of the line.

The line is precisely the fundamental element of his most recent works, the basic unit with which he draws his characteristic vocabulary of shapes and color in empty space. This use that tends to the minimum appears almost as a natural consequence of his artistic searches in recent years. If in the series of his Visual Systems he had been refining his language to concentrate on defining the elements that make it up and building with them his own syntax, in his Linear Constructions he seems to take that purpose even further, by reducing such elements to the limit of the lines that constitute them.

This reformulation allows to show how the relationship of Cisco’s language with space has taken preeminence in his work, as well as the interaction between the elements of that language as a generating value. The lines intersect, merge, mark shared and contrasting spaces. They are thus presented as limit and creative openness.

Finally, the idea of ​​limit and threshold finds a foothold in a new set of works related to Linear Constructions. In the Reflex series, the line crosses the work beyond the real space and the forms end up being configured in the virtuality of the mirror. The work is built decisively as something in between, as an incomplete but completable entity.

Perhaps what characterizes these Cisco Merel pieces is the concept of transition. He has built a language of objects in continuous transit between the corporeal, the ethereal and the virtual.