Place-Geometry
Behind every architectural facade is a painter. The arrangement of forms is an inherent characteristic which interconnects painting and architecture making the canvas surface and the building site a similar place to be divided and subdivided. A work of architecture is the configuration of form – structure, color, shadow and light – one only has to strip away the third-dimension to be left with a painting. In the case of Wassef Boutros-Ghali his works connect to earlier schools of painting architecturally – Le Corbusier’s Synthetic-Cubism, Patrick Henry Bruce’s Purism, or the Precisionist paintings of Manierre Dawson. Yet Boutros-Ghali’s geometry bares notes of modern architecture. Harmony and balance achieved by asymmetry and a certain amount of tension as he struggles to preserve the optical experience of space. The paintings attempt to achieve a static form and dynamic ephemeral sense of color.