Nicolás Guzmán: Das Schloss (The Castle)

Confronting the paradox of structure and elusiveness, Nicolás Guzmán's presentation of Das Schloss (The Castle) brings together a body of works that suggest a topology of impermanence, an architecture built on absence as much as presence. Like an unreachable citadel, his paintings construct layered spatial realities that refuse to settle into fixed perspectives.

At the heart of Guzmán’s practice lies the dual force of catastrophe and creation. Each painting begins as a cliché that is in turn fractured, reassembled, and transformed. Presented with an internal struggle, a confrontation between the eye and the hand, where the moment of abstraction supersedes conscious intent. The surface of the canvas becomes a battleground. It is an arena where form resists resolution and gesture suspends the finality of structure. This tension underscores the fundamental instability of meaning, positioning the act of painting as an ongoing negotiation between force and fragility.

"These are not structures to be entered but to be pursued, shifting between states of formation and dissolution. Guzmán transforms the act of painting into a speculative process, one that mirrors the futility of grasping the unattainable, allowing the viewer to navigate the fractures and rhythms of an impossible space.…"

- curator Charles Moore