“Después de Rendon” by Fabian Burgos.

Fabian Burgos proves that a particular style of geometric, kinetic abstract art first nurtured in South America in the mid-20th century is still alive and strong. Following in the footsteps of such heavy weights as Jesus Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Burgos is holding up that legacy beautifully, with his own 21st-century aesthetics entwined.

His large-scale, painstakingly crafted pieces currently hanging at the Alejandra von Hartz Gallery – recent works that make up “Stay in Space” – are amazing to look at, as more details are revealed the longer you gaze.

Two of the pieces that flank each side of the main room are made up of dozens and dozens of horizontal lines that change colors as they roll along; the violets blur into yellows, the blues into greens, and so on. In the end, all the colors of the visible spectrum of light are represented. Within these lines are geometric shapes that pop out – in a sense interrupting the flow of the changing hues – giving the works a 3-D element, and making them even more kinetic.

These works from the Argentina-based artist so impressed developer Jorge Perez (whose name is incorporated in the Perez Art Museum Miami) that his Related Group has commissioned Burgos to cover a wall on a new high-rise off of Brickell in Downtown with a similar pattern, albeit in gigantic scale (Burgos painted such a monumental work on a main avenue in Buenos Aires before). This will be quite an undertaking, as he paints his lines individually. The result should be visible to all around the beginning of next year.

The back room could be called the Blue Room, as the paintings here are geometric blue and white works. Except, look closely: Burgos has ever so slightly outlined the shapes, in one case with a burnt-orange color, in the other with black. That added touch transforms these paintings into something sublime; you just can’t get enough. Maybe the name of the exhibit could be transformed itself, as in “You’ll Want to Stay in This Space.”

“Stay in Space” runs through April 4 at Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, 2630 N.W. 2nd Ave., Miami; 305-438-0220; alejandravonhartz.net.