Gallery 9, Darlinghurst

While looking at the exhibition *‘Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain’ at the AGNSW last year, I was drawn to the importance of the diagonal structure and underpinning of the prints and drawings of Goya. On looking further it seemed that empty corners and groups of figures that mass through dynamic diagonals, give force and theatre to his dramatic themes (The Disasters of War etc.)

It occurred to me that drama and disruption to the everyday can engage the viewer on the precipice of a destabilised world. City life with the scale of building blocks, colour and sharp shadows cutting through spaces can feel monumental and overwhelming but they are also patterns of the 21st century.

Those rhythms and patterns, confronting noise and speed are our lives today, both exciting and challenging. The tilted and distruptive diagonals in ‘Goya’s Corners’ evoke and contain this new precipice.