Organic, 1977

After experimenting with foam and polyester sheets in biomorphic works that suggest knotted guts, sinews and mutilated limbs, he shows on of these pieces, called Organic, for the first time, along with others from his previous period, in the exhibition Once espacios (“Eleven Spaces”), organised by Samuel Paz at the Ruth Benzacar gallery. A renowned group of sculptors take part: Horacio Coll, Carlos de la Mota, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Noemí Gerstein, Claudio Girola, Alberto Heredia, Enio Iommi, Aldo Paparella, Emilio Renart and María Juana Heras Velasco. Gómez’s work, while retaining the metaphor of dissolution employed in the pieces of 1976, subverts schematics by reintroducing the expressive marks he had abandoned. Through gestural language, colour and texture, he refers to one primary material, living tissue, which becomes laden with existential connotations. The work made one of the viewers uneasy and it was moved to a less visible spot.