Tuplet
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Within visual art the grid and the lattice announce a will toward silence: a deliberate refusal of literature, of narrative, and of discursive meaning. The grid establishes itself as a structure that turns away from storytelling, asserting instead the primacy of visual presence and formal necessity.
Tuplet
Crossroads of strips and squares
Bhogakkhandha data stream
Sukha-vipaka data stream
No other form within modernist and contemporary aesthetic production has maintained itself with such persistence while so resolutely resisting transformation. Yet this resistance is not inert. The grid functions through repetition rather than development, sustaining itself as a model that continually renews its appearance without altering its underlying logic. Within this framework, the practice of painters such as Fabrizio Ruggiero continues to test the generative capacity of the grid, producing new configurations that remain faithful to its essential structure. 
Grid painting asserts its centrality within Contemporary Art along two distinct axes. Spatially, it affirms the autonomy of the artistic field, sealing the work off from illusionistic space and external reference. Temporally, it functions as an emblem of the antidevelopmental, the antinarrative, and the antihistorical—rejecting linear progression in favor of sustained presence. 
Quietly walking through Nigredo
Approaching Storm
 In its temporal dimension, the grid becomes emblematic of the Contemporary precisely through its ubiquity. Once it appears, the grid seems immune to change, suspending time by refusing the logic of before and after. The absence of development does not imply a loss of value. The grid’s power lies in its capacity to function as a paradigm, one that replaces historical succession with repetition and mythic immediacy. By arriving at the grid, Fabrizio Ruggiero enters a space outside of history, a territory no longer governed by narrative progression but grounded instead in the continuous present. Fabrizio Ruggiero enters a territory that stands apart from what precedes it, a condition of sustained presence, anchored firmly in the here and now. . 
Shere Khan
Shah-un-Dhan
Mental Landscape – Reflex
Mental Landscape
Reflecting on a Shining Expanse of Water
Approaching Twilight
Possible
Gravitational Magnet
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