In our last Kick-About, we explored the theme of ‘Solstice,’ reflecting on the turning of the seasons and the balance of light and dark. Next, we turn to the work of Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García to usher in the new year. For all previous editions of The Kick-About go here.
Gary Thorne
“Being short on resources, #122 luckily it seems arrived on its own whilst unpacking a suitcase… I am so looking forward to our heads and hearts repeatedly coming together across the new year. Keep in good health everyone.”
Kerfe Roig
“I liked Garcia’s irregular grids and the way clocks popped up in many of his works. I felt like a newsprint ground mimicked his grounds well and I dipped into my collage box of timepieces to place on top.“
watched
an invisible pendulum
counts out the time–
I try to deflect its passing
by employing various ruses
and sleights of hand–
but the hours are arrogant
as they gaze unflinching,
unmoved by any attempt
to wear a different mask,
cast a different shadow
and leave them behind
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Phil Gomm
“I was very taken by Torres-García’s toys—his kits or components, and that sense of these lovely, tactile ‘building-blocks’ being arranged and re-arranged. I made my ‘toys’ by making quick moulds out of cardboard boxes and filling them with quick drying filler, then slapping on some colour, and then sanding it all back down again. They make for very satisfying objects—smooth and weighty.”
James Randall
“It seemed to me that Joaquín Torres-García was developing a personal code which was laid out in quite a tight grid. I had just been to Queen Mary Falls which was in full flight with recent rains and I took a few photos facing into the water. The water plumes as they fell displayed a code of their own and that was my jumping off point – isolating and repeating the watery lines then mixing them in with pics of the local landscape and vegetation, then some layers of shapes and potential icons. Happy 2025 fellow KA-ers.“
Tom Beg
“I wanted to create the effect of one of Torres-Garcia’s constructivist paintings deconstructing itself, as if the blocks of a painting are collapsing into a kind of bottomless vertex.”
Graeme Daly
“I’ve been up to my eyes illustrating some upcoming illustrations for Rio Carnival and seeing these Constructivism drawings of Garcia couldn’t have come at a better time. Inspired by the abundance of colour in Rio I decided to illustrate its essence during Carnival coupled with Garcia’s shapely designs.”
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And taking us into the lovely blank canvas of 2025…
Red's Kingdom 
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