Alfredo Prior's "Un verde pensar bajo una sombra verde" runs through November 1 at MALBA.

This month, Fundacion Costantini presents acclaimed Argentine painter Alfredo Prior’s Un verde pensar bajo una sombra verde at MALBA in Buenos Aires. Prior, a member of the group “Generation of the 80s,” was a protagonist of the effervescent artistic movement that occurred in Argentina during that decade.

Now, the “narrative painter, the conceptual artist, the neomanerist,” presents 21 of his most recent works showing his evolution into a style that is “more abstract than ever,” according to critic Eva Grinstein in the introductory essay of the catalog that accompanies the exhibition. The artist’s focus on color and its different manners of dissolution are at the core of the show, the marbleized canvases ranging from opaque neutrals to brilliant hues.

The title of the exhibition is taken from a line of the poem “The Garden” by English politician and metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). “To a green thought in a green shade,” reads the poem, which Grinstein argues signals a tension between the natural world and the spiritual one as well as a pact between Prior and his mind. “In these pictures without distractions and without detours, all that is color is also thought.” If that is true, Prior presents viewers with enough thoughts to keep them busy for quite some time.

“Un verde pensar bajo una sombra verde” opened September 10th and runs through November 1st at MALBA. For more Buenos Aires art and design features, visit VanityBA and subscribe to our premium newsletter, InvestBA Privada.