Invasion
Kenneth Kemble
,Oil and collage on canvas, 160 × 120cm.
Invasión (Invasion) is part of a series of works that Kemble began during the 1960s that combined areas of gesture with large, flat geometric planes; and formless stains with impeccable fragments of paper that were glued onto the surface. In these canvases, he was looking for the most extreme opposition possible between visual elements: between texture and smoothness, brutishness and delicacy, geometry and informality. The piece conserved in this collection is a collage that eludes such compositional criteria as balance and equilibrium in order to present various flat areas of oil paint in a harsh, frontal manner, along with an enormous piece of collage in relief, brashly superimposed on the support. Everything is direct and lacking any kind of transition.