Aleix Albareda - THAU I

One-of-a-kind piece. With certificate of authenticity. (Mounted on frame 100 x 100 x 3.8 cm)
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In this series of acrylics on canvas, the painting becomes an exercise in visual excavation. Under a persistent pattern of horizontal bands, ornamental, architectural, and calligraphic forms emerge and hide, seemingly belonging to a collective memory. The decorative ceases to be a motif and becomes a vestige: a fragmented language that resists disappearing.

The layering of surfaces generates a constant tension between revealing and concealing. The black stripes act as interruptions of time, glazes that prevent immediate reading and compel the viewer to reconstruct the image from absence. Each work proposes an archaeology of the gaze, where the visible is never fully presented and meaning remains suspended.

The chromatic economy — reduced to the dialogue between blacks, whites, and a wide range of grays — focuses attention on the materiality of the gesture. Transparencies, brush drag, and the traces of the process turn the surface into a record of actions, where the painting preserves the memory of its own making.

Far from literal representation, these pieces inhabit an intermediate territory between abstraction and evocation. Their references to ornamental patterns, architectural structures, and ancestral signs appear as echoes of a visual culture that decomposes and recomposes simultaneously. The series invites reflection on the permanence of symbols, the fragility of memory, and the capacity of painting to reveal what remains hidden beneath the successive layers of time.

Solo exhibitions
2024
Albareda366 / Saló de les Homilies d'Organyà - Solsona, Spain
2024
Xiuxiueig·s / Sala TATRAU - Solsona, Spain
2023
D'aquí·s / Sala TATRAU - Solsona, Spain
2023
Albareda / Espai Grau Pujol - Guissona, Spain
2023
Mel·líflua / Can Puget - Manlleu, Spain
2021
Festum·s / Saló de les Homilies d'Organyà - Solsona, Spain
2021
Trestopie·s / Dual Gallery - Girona, Spain
2020
Mixtisque / Sala TATRAU - Solsona, Spain
2019
Vatarc·s / Galeria Espai G d'Art - Terrassa, Spain
2019
Blodoll·s / Plaça Major 09 - Solsona, Spain
2019
a l b a r e d a / Comú d'Encamp - Encamp, Andorra
2018
Quattuor / Sala TATRAU - Solsona, Spain
2018
Seclusions / Sala Gris - Solsona, Spain
2017
a l b a r e d a / Galeria Legax Art - Barcelona, Spain
2016
TOLV·S / Sala TATRAU - Solsona, Spain
2016
a l b a r e d a / Galeria Art Point - Lleida, Spain
2015
a l b a r e d a / Sala Gris - Solsona, Spain
2014
PURBLIND·ER'S / Centre Cívic Xavier Jounou - Solsona, Spain
2013
a l b a r e d a 3 6 5 / Sala Sant Jordi - Solsona, Spain
2011
a l b a r e d a / Sala d'Art Neri - Girona, Spain
2009
Sentits / Sala Sant Jordi - Solsona, Spain
2007
Sisnits / Sala Sant Jordi - Solsona, Spain
2006
Fusions / Sala Sant Jordi - Solsona, Spain
2004
Romanents / Sala Sant Jordi - Solsona, Spain
2002
Treestos / Sala Sant Jordi - Solsona, Spain
2000
Quasiblau / Sala Sant Jordi - Solsona, Spain
1997
1EDP / Ajuntament de Solsona - Solsona, Spain
Publications
2020
Núvol- Quatre col·leccions en una
2020
El Nacional- La faceta desconocida del actor de TV3
2019
Regió 7- Dos tipus de mirades innocents
2019
Cultura ara andorra- Aleix Albareda
2019
el Periòdic- Aleix Albareda
2019
Núvol- Rostres i paisatges solsonins
2018
Regió 7- Aleix Albareda
2018
Telva- Un viaje por la Comarca del Solsonès
2009
Lectura / Segre- Aleix Albareda
2008
Cultura_s / La Vanguardia- Dos mundos
2005
La Conversa / Regió 7- Aleix Albareda