Curator, Luis Perez-Oramas: Léon Ferrari was born in 1920. In Buenos Airs Argentina. As a young man, Léon Ferrari trained as an engineer. It wasn't until a trip to Italy when he was in his thirties that he experimented in the fine arts. Ferrari began his career by making sculpture.
Curator, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães: This is a three-dimensional work. It's what Ferrari calls one of his “boxes.” It's a work that has several layers at the base of these boxes. He starts with one of his abstract gestural drawings that he normally makes with ink, and in between the work he places this accumulation of tangled wires. He draws on the inside of that glass with ink echoing the same kind of gestural abstract lines that he does.
He is interested in representing this kind of intentional confusion or the opacity of truth.