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If, in the 80s, Manuel Carmo’s works offered symbolic landscapes touched by a dream-like imagination which allowed him to be situated in what Cirlot calls “Informalism”, currently, the symbolic component is mainly concentrated into formal propositions of a geometric nature: straight and curved lines, angular areas, masses and blocks of great polymorphic simplicity, which interact freely in spaces dominated by light backgrounds as if they were collages.

Some touches of colour participate in this symbolic game dominated by the dialogue of black-white and reflect what has already been established amongst the different isolated elements that participate in the space of each work.

Joan-Lluis de Yebra
Professor at the Barcelona University’s College of Fine Arts