Byram Tunez's work lies on a crossroads of cultural and humanist circumstances, choosing an aesthetics of abstract and geometrical scheme, both bi and tridimensional, an ouvre which aims the ambition to reach universal levels of understanding. Lined, geometrical shapes are the main aspects of this work, concentrating optical illusions and a constant rhythmic vibration.
As a suggestive extension in public space, these works depart and put us in front of a radical plastic formulation: drawing, sculpture, architecture and urban design are combined in a bold interpretation of geometric abstraction. Lines are placed in an area previously analyzed, forming triangles and other volumes towards a kind of expanded view.
Configurated as a language that translates abstractized references to planetary cultural imaginary, in his sculptures merges natural and parallel along drawing, painting, jewelry or textiles. Byram Tunez´s concept and aesthetics materializes in a style and identity that structures this late series of sculptures and installations.
It could be said that his organized approach to form considers negative space (lines, shades) as a way to give added value to another formal properties like transparency, or the pure void. Along this optical and sensitive estrategy, the spectator is introduced in the management of spatiality, dealing with concepts like proximity and distance, out and inside, or the perception of air.
Tunez´s hermetic simbology distinguishes lately in the urban landscape of Cologne. A book focused in recent manifestations of street art, edited by the street art initiative Die Kunst Agentin, presents his sculptures signed in the city´s landscape. Part of a bigger project, this modular and expanded shapes choose post-industrial areas like Mülheim or Ehrenfeld to reinforce an open dialogue with the urban space.
These modular forms seem to make use of a sort of neural-pathway due to its mathematical and geometrical own logic which repeats patterns displayed at every possible scale. They are engaged with the optics of perception, revealing to be inclusive and emphatic to all publics, growing spatially and poetically through its communicative and vitality potential at both sides of the Rhine river.
Cologne, February 2015