Interview on Widewalls Magazine
All of our visible and invisible world is ruled by geometric proportions. However, mathematical laws rarely inspire artists, who usually rely on different phenomenological manifestations in their art.
Among contemporary artists who recently turned their interest towards precisely this not-so-artistic material of mathematical ratios is Noon Spiegel, an American artist from New York, represented by Oliver Cole Gallery.
Spiegel's recent series explores the golden ratio, the Fibonacci sequence, binary code, and sacred geometry in paintings that combine abstraction and figuration. Like the invisible rules behind everything in our reality, Spiegel's paintings are mathematically precise in formal application while preserving the aesthetic effect of unbridled expression.
Resembling both a jumbled mathematical equation and engineering schema, the works can be seen as blueprints of the world's DNA, filled with ancient human-made forms, anatomical drawings of the human body in different positions, and geometrical structures, all extracted from our material and immaterial reality.
Spiegel's fine drawing traces this sacred truth across the muted palette of blacks and whites, a perfect background for his contemplative reverie. And among everything, a precise red line that connects different segments of the painting, a pulsating streak of color that announces a logic yet to be deciphered.
To learn more about his practice and the ideas behind his work, we talked with Noon Spiegel, who commented on his approach, the latest body of work, and revealed plans for the upcoming months.