These bodily pleasures, these games, these aromas constantly appear in Ruiz Guiñazú’s pictorial Spinozism. In Les équations, a boy plays with a geometric representation; in La liberté, a girl runs; in Caute II, a girl plays hopscotch on a geometric structure; in La pierre (lettre à Schuller), a girl throws a stone in play; in Les causes extérieures, a boy plays beside a portrait of Spinoza lying on the ground, with a sprig of flowers. Flowers—especially roses—play an important role in Ruiz Guiñazú’s work: in Deus sive natura, a focused girl holds a rose. The rose of Spinoza is also depicted in the portrait titled simply La rose.

Excerpt from Mario Donoso's essay