Ciudad Real, Spain, 1953
The plinth in a building is located at the bottom of the wall, but for Gilabert it is at visual height, losing part of its original meaning, reaching a hierarchy that was previously stolen. The artist observes the different limits of the plinths and the possibilities of association through their fragmentation, seeking through primary geometric forms a totality in permanent revision. He fills the planes with colours, these expand, creating pictures within the painting, planes that energise the monochrome statism.
These real spaces, full of light and colour, serve as an excuse to try to elevate through meditation and the artisan process the pleasure of contemplating something as simple as the union of different colour planes in the baseboards. Colour creates a space that could be inhabitable, although in reality it can only be penetrated by the eye and initiate a dream.
