Non Plus Ultra” is a movable installation of fifty sheets of glass used as supports for silkscreen printing.

Two graphic-pictorial images inhabit the same space: on one side a column, on the other a human  figure seen from behind, arms extended, reminiscent of the crucifixion iconography. The overlaying of these two levels of impressions sets off an interplay of perceptions which changes what viewers see, depending on their perspective and the light.

The work reflects on the concept of limits and their negation, on man’s sacred urge to cross the threshold of what is known and logical, to explore what lies beyond us. Drawing on the rigor of the materials, Borondo establishes imagined pathways, with the repetitiveness and closeness of the figures creating perspectives of arches, openings, all meant to be an enticement, through the artist’s poetic treatment, to reach new destinations, to continue evolving.

The installation is intended to be an experiential process, an encounter with the limit, which is reached through a transparent labyrinth of signs and perspectives, reflections and symbols, all of them eventually melding with, and losing themselves in, the multitude, at one and the same time giving rise to questions and setting the viewer on the path to infinity.

“Non Plus Ultra” is the fruit of exploratory work with glass, poetics and transparency that Gonzalo Borondo has engaged in since 2011, plus  his experiments in silk-screening, which benefited greatly from the invaluable contributions of Arturo Amitrano, the founder of 56Fili, whose technical skill, applied with an avant-garde sensibility, has allowed the artist to set out in new directions.

 “Non Plus Ultra” takes a visionary approach to silk-screening, one under which rules border on the unaccustomed, errors are put to use, causes are encountered prior to discovery, and technical prowess ventures out beyond the boundaries of the white sheet of paper, playing with freedom and space in order to interact with the public, with life.