The dark room and the night view outside the open window are transformed by Javier Vilató into a setting of dream and fantasy. The artist explored the innovations and upheavals of cubism with traditional representational models close to Uncle Picasso in Paris. The solid contours and the monochrome palette compose the objects, the furniture and space, conveying poetic symbolisms for the human presence or absence. The boundary between the imaginary and the real world is changing, the balance of perspective is lost and space is flowing with the reversal of the meaning inside and outside.
[Vilató Javier (1921-2000, Spain), Untitled, 1948
Oil on canvas, 41x33 cm
Donation of Alexandros and Dorothy Xydis to the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (1999), MOMus - Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections]