Group of crosses making the work rejected at
the exhibition
Artistas del papel

for something like salvation, after so many years immersed in the representation of horror.

He moves into a flat on Belgrano avenue and improvises a workshop in its living room. The constraints of space, as well as health problems, force him to reduce the size and weight of his works, and he starts making small-scale objects using “craftwork” techniques – cutting, embossing, gluing, painting, recycling.

The critics Jorge Glusberg, Laura Bueccellato and Carlos Espartaco invite him to create a piece for the exhibition Artistas del papel (“Paper Artists”), at the Centro Cultural de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. The sponsor –Massuh S. A.– gave each invited artist a ten-metre roll of paper to work with. Gomez makes small objects with strips of paper coiled around pencils and hardened with synthetic glue. The result is 64 identical crosses, formed with alternate circles and squares, crowning ornamental columns. The group suggests a forest of crosses,