‘And now he can stretch out his arm and draw the light towards him; he is the archer of light who confines the light yet at the same time pours it onto the picture. Now there is no going back: he can pull the light toward the taut surfaces of his hands, in a studio with the lamp switched on, toward his hands that possess the intensity of a maker of beauty’ -Extract from El Arquero de la Luz (The Archer of Light) by Arnaldo Calveyra Translated from Argentinian Spanish by Jacqueline Hall

On the one year anniversary of Luis Tomasello’s death The Mayor Gallery presents an homage to the artist with a group show, inspired by The Archer of Light, a 2013 collaboration between Luis Tomasello and the poet Arnaldo Calveyra.

The selection of kinetic and op artists includes Alberto Biasi, Waldemar Cordeiro, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Turi Simeti, Francois Morellet and Nanda Vigo who are all united by their desire to capture and control light and to express movement and energy through optical effects. The action of viewing the work becomes a sensory, stimulating and personal experience.