Architecture nº2 is a lost plate woodcut edition made by the artist himself between the Escuela Municipal de Artes y Oficios de Vigo (EMAO) and the Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporanea – Fundación CIEC (Betanzos, A Coruña). It is a 4-colour edition of 11 numbered and signed copies + 2 artist’s proofs. This is the second of a series of woodcut editions with architectural compositions as the link between them.

Architecture nº2 is both a geometric exercise and a critique of urban speculation. A work in which the continuous rotation of the coordinate axes, together with two fictitious vanishing points, generates an intricate multidimensional labyrinth.

This striking composition, with a range of calid colours chosen to generate a play of light and shadow that enhances the forms of the structure, is a departure from Peri Helio’s traditional line of work. He leaves behind the aesthetics of drawing to approach a more pictorial finish, abandoning the line to give prominence to the planes of colour. A new way of working that adapts very well to the lost plate technique with which Peri has produced this edition.