Duarte built a world where geometry was shared.
As part of Spain’s Grupo 57, he treated structure as collaboration — art as the meeting point of minds.
His compositions balanced precision and generosity, order becoming a form of dialogue. In his world, proportion was a social contract.
Accumulation is commonly treated as ornament or repetition. In José Duarte’s work, repeated manual processes function structurally to build dense surfaces that register labor, duration, and material resistance.
Forms thicken, layering preserves relational intervals, and process remains legible across time. Spatial and material relations are determined by the sequence of application rather than expressive choice.
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