Aleix Albareda - All that Guixers shimmering

One-of-a-kind piece, with certificate of authenticity.

REDARKNES·S - Acrylics on canvas, 112 × 112 cm
These paintings construct a territory between the recognizable and the imagined.
From an essential palette of blacks, grays, and whites, the painting material becomes landscape, memory, and imprint. The surfaces appear fragmented, eroded, and rebuilt through stains, gestures, transparencies and geometric textures that coexist with a freer, more organic gesturality.
The image seems to emerge from an accumulation of matter.
The dark center concentrates the gaze and functions as a kind of expanding nucleus, while the brushstrokes surrounding it suggest movement, vegetation, rock, or a nature subjected to continual transformation. Light does not come from a single point: it appears between the layers, in small voids and white fragments that make the composition vibrate.
A somewhat more architectural structure is introduced.
The grids, modules and texture fields organize the apparent chaos and establish a tension between order and overflow.
The landscape ceases to be a literal representation and becomes an experience: something to be traversed, remembered and finally rebuilt through fragments.
In these works, the territory is not described; it is experienced.
The painting functions as an emotional map in which nature, memory and human intervention coexist.
The geometric forms seem remnants of a rational structure that the painting material itself strives to undo.
From this confrontation arises a powerful, almost archaeological image, where each layer seems to contain the trace of a previous one.
The square format of 112 × 112 cm reinforces this frontal and enveloping experience: the gaze does not easily find an entry or exit point, but becomes trapped in a surface that expands in all directions.
They are works that speak, in short, of concrete places without being limited to them.
Painting thus becomes a space of sedimentation: a place where lived, observed and imagined things end up forming a single material.
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