Chelsea, New York: In The Burden Of Words, 532 Gallery showcases recent works by Cuban artist Jose Angel Vincench. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.
Looking at Jose Angel Vincench’s geometric abstractions, one can’t help being stunned by all their luminosity — the light inherent in their gold, the most precious metal of all minerals, all the more so because of its symbolic import – and their innovative, idiosyncratic geometry. Gold is universally regarded as a sacred material, a symbol of transcendence, like the sun that rises above the earth it shines on. We cannot live without its miraculous light, and we value gold because it is imbued with light. It is a peculiarly abstract material, a sort of immaterial material like light. Gold is the most malleable of metals; working with gold leaf, as Vincench does, is to bend light to one’s aesthetic and expressive purpose.
Vincench rises to the sun, as Icarus did, but unlike Icarus he does not fall, nor burn himself as he touches the light. (Donald Kuspit, “Ironical Gold: Jose Angel Vincench’s Conceptual Abstraction”)
We are pleased to represent Jose Angel Vincench. Vincench (born 1973, Holguin, Cuba) is a Cuban artist, living and working in Havana. He completed his art studies in Havana’s Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). His works have been exhibited in New York, Zurich, Havana, and are in the collection of UBS Art Collection, New York, and Chris vin Christierson Collection, London, as well as many private collections.
