This essay by the curator María Elena Ramos provides a broad (museum director/curator’s) overview of the work produced by the Dominican-born Venezuelan artist Domingo Álvarez (b. 1935), whose interests, as an architect and a teacher, always involve space. Álvarez had worked as a museologist which is why he thinks of space in museum terms. At the time she wrote this essay, Ramos had just been appointed director of the Museo de Bellas Artes. (Which is, incidentally, in a building that was designed by Carlos Raúl Villanueva on two separate occasions, the beginning and the end; the former is classical and the latter is an extension in a brutalist style.) When Ramos stepped in as director of the MBA in 1991, the extension (the second phase of the building) was the only part that was available because the older section had been on loan to the GAN (Galería de Arte Nacional) since 1976. Faced with a divided building, the curator gave a great deal of thought “to the space problem” which appeared to be as complex as the architectural structure in which the organization was housed. She therefore called in two artists, the above mentioned Álvarez and the Venezuelan artist Víctor Lucena (b. 1948) (see “Victor Lucena. El espacio en el objeto” [doc. no. 1161176]). Ramos essentially compared the artistic process to philosophical approaches that stimulate reflection on architecture and its functions: habitability, accessibility, the penetration of space, the “non-existence” of places that appear to exist, flat figures that become three-dimensional, time and space, and many other considerations.