capital zero

I accidentally wrote down the wrong end date for Jonathan Runcio's Capital Zero exhibition at Ratio 3, so it's a good thing I still made it to the gallery before the show closed on Saturday.  Runcio's work uses geometry to great effect, as in the piece at right that was one in a series displayed in the main room, by layering multiple single-color shapes to create new patterns and color combinations where they intersect.  I also liked the swirl of colors in the pane at the bottom of each of those pieces that seem to live in a dreamlike symbiosis with the more hard-edged reality in the upper portions.  Their slick synthetic paper surfaces contrasted with the works on linen in the back room where Runcio had spray painted more shapes onto canvases of the nubby fabric, this time dealing with only two colors at a time.  There is nothing natural about the hues Runcio chooses, and I dig the fact that he emphasizes the manufactured aspects of his art.