Also on view is a fascinating invented game known as Panajedrez, Panjuego, and Ajedrez criollo – or Panchess, Pangame and Creole chess. The wordplay reflects the multiple facets of the game: a visual, textual, and symbolic lexicon invented by the artist drawing from existing sign systems; a supremely challenging test of strategy made more complex by new rules; and a way to write or think about astrology, language, and mathematics. The relationship of this multilayered game and the artist’s works on paper is clear when one compares the two. The latter are colorful, delicate watercolors, comprised of a multiplicity of imagery that encourages the viewer to reflect on the beautifully rendered figures, signs, architecture, and landscapes. Both them and the chess game allude to the artist’s cosmopolitan and playful intellectual practice, in which the familiar is reinvented, the universal becomes local, and vice versa. (via What Did Jorge Luis Borges Jorge See in Xul Solar?)