This «push - pull» of contrasting color and contiguous form lies at the very heart of his work and succinctly epitomizes the conflict between abstraction and figuration with which many artists of his generation struggled. (christies.com)
These tablets with their elements of abstraction and figuration speak of our world but Gordín turns things around with his capacity to observe and innovate. (anti-utopias.com)
Other works play with abstraction and figuration in inventive ways. (nytimes.com)