Bienal de Pontevedra

Specifically created for the 32nd Pontevedra Biennial, this work by Antonio Ballester Moreno is a symbolic representation of the sky and its cyclical movement. Mobile shapes, evoking stars and planets, complement each other and are coupled as part of a cosmic choreography in which everything fits together in a continuous flow, just as night is followed by day, spring by summer, and then by autumn. These are rhythms affecting our lives, but also influencing our psychology and the way we understand images and art. With basic geometric shapes and primary colours, the work dialogues with both childhood and the early avant-garde by bringing back the original gesture of observing the world with wonder. The piece depicts a landscape, a space that invites us to participate not only with our presence, but also with our gaze, because the axis on which the world moves is both creative and contemplative. The artist suggests a poetic relationship between the outside and the inside, between the passage of time and the human experience, which reminds us that every glance – like every dawn – is also a form of creation. Day and night, like positive and negative or heaven and earth, far from being considered opposites, are binomials that cannot be separated, because one does not exist without the other.