La Luna 2 is from Luis González Palma’s Koan, Astrofotografía series. One of a string of moon images, it reinterprets astronomical photographs taken by the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba, Argentina to reflect on the notion of infinity and the search for an origin. González Palma’s work touches on established themes and new directions for the artist. Construction-destruction and the object nature of the image is implicated through folding of the work. These themes are ongoing parts of González Palma’s fine art practice; he has long engaged in a sort of production that leaves the mark of the maker on the work: painting in stain-like washes over his prints, folding or tearing prints, leaving rough edges, even uneven corners, occasionally letting fingerprints on the image-edge remain visible, and the like). This physical handling of the art object augments rather than diminishes its consciousness and presence as contemporary art.
La Luna 2 is from Luis González Palma’s broader study, Invisible Palpables (Hesiquias and Koan series, itself divided into three parts: Astrofotografía, Spectra, and Cosmic Dust). In these works the artist breaks into what he calls "lyrical abstraction;" he creates uncertain and charged images of a mysterious geography. Through abstraction, González Palma represents a reality related to the void and the sacred in a space of introspection. This modern artwork is part of a new direction in process: the artist’s interest in working with archives, personal and public, and has discontinued making new photographs by his own hand. González Palma’s practice has become about recontextualizing existing images.
Luis González Palma
La Luna 2
Digital print on onion paper, collage, red thread
20 x 20 (approx.) in. | $5,500
