LYRICAL GEOMETRY (1985-1993)

 

With paintings from the series Lyrical Geometry (1985-1993) Anzo made a progress in the color esthetics. He was also using big formats with positive-negative contrasts and with oblique angles offsetting the vanishing middle-points. Grey, black or white fields with yellow rays compose constructions, which seem to come from Malevich or Barnett Newman, representatives of the most polished painting.

 

At his 1987 José Martinez Medina, S.A. solo exhibition in Valencia 20 large paintings from the Lyrical Geometry were publicly presented.

 

In Anzo's opinion, the mathematics and a line are fundamental for the balance he seeks for. "I think that beauty arises from the balance between the mathematical and the lyrical," he said. 

 

His approach – set by reductionist assumptions of the geometry and with or without figurative inserts – is reduced to plain metaphorical images.

 

In 1989 his Lyrical Geometry was displayed in Valencia again (Val i 30 gallery): "I have reached a higher synthesis of the geometric lyricism, which I have been doing for the past five years. I have been trying to detach myself from the superfluous." (…) "I believe that a painting is flat." This was a way he put his feelings of that time. In conclusion, a new plastic proposal that established a connection between emotion and reason, harmoniously combining a calculated code and an expressive texture.