This brief text by Nedo [Mion Ferrario] (1926–2001) attests to the artist’s particular experience of space and planes, of what’s possible and what’s impossible in the graphic representation of forms. What’s curious and original about this text is the fact that the designer who wrote it speaks, with self-assurance and knowledge, of the problem of representation on a surface, a problem more often addressed in the fields of graphic design and geometry than in writings on art theory.
While explicatory, this text also describes the metaphysical experience of space. “Suddenly, a way in appears; once I have gone through, I levitate in a different space,” Nedo states. There are few texts by Venezuelan graphic designers who have ventured into painting—individuals like Gerd Leufert, and specially Sigfredo Chacón, and Nedo himself—which gives extra value to this one on Nedo’s Reversámbitos. Those works constitute visual thinking born of “what could be called magic, despite highly rigorous logic.” Nedo describes his experience in unique terms, stating “I perceive physically contrasting perspectives, that is, the impossible made possible.”
Nedo exhibited his Reversámbitos at the Museo Soto in Ciudad Bolívar in 1974, the year after they were exhibited at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, and years later at the Galería La Pirámide in Caracas in 1980.