INEXORABLE: POLAR-TIME WORKS BY FERNANDO CASAS

Time is at the very center of who we are; at the very center of all reality. I wanted to bring out some of its puzzling reality and how essential it is in weaving the world that we live in. – Fernando Casas

It has been said that Casas’ works provide the viewer with “both a vision of infinity and an intimate look of human beings. The infinity derives from his novel perspective systems: one that captures in a single image the complete, spherical visual space that surrounds us, and a second that connects these spherical images along the time dimension.”
The new exhibition at the Limits and Proximities gallery, “INEXORABLE,” brings us face to face with Casas’ personal exploration of the passage of time and the ebbing of the vitality of life. The exhibition brings together works that have as their subjects individuals who have played significant roles in Casas’ life, still lifes of objects at the end of their lives, hourglasses, co-constitutions, and even self-portraits across four decades.
Many of the works in this exhibit are Polar Time paintings and drawings in which Casas uses his innovation in perspective to create Polar Images that show- in a discontinuous fashion- the movement of perceived objects in space and time. Each of these works, can be likened to a “memoir” in which the subject has their beginning or beginnings in one sphere and their current state in another.