Aleix Albareda - Pinell swing blind

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REDARKNES·S - Acrylics on canvas, 112 × 112 cm
These paintings build a territory between the recognizable and the imagined. From an essential palette of blacks, grays, and whites, the pictorial matter becomes landscape, memory and imprint. The surfaces appear fragmented, eroded and reconstructed through stains, gestures, transparencies and geometric weaves 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. The light does not come from a single point: it appears between the layers, in small voids and white fragments that make the composition vibrate.
An architecture-like structure is introduced. Grids, modules and fields of texture 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 ultimately reconstructed through fragments.
In these works, the territory is not described; it is experienced. The painting functions as an emotional map where nature, memory and human intervention coexist. The geometric shapes resemble remnants of a rational structure that the painting material itself is determined 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, enveloping experience: the gaze does not easily find an entry or exit point, but is trapped on a surface that expands in all directions.
These are works that speak, ultimately, of concrete places without being confined to them. The painting thus becomes a space of sedimentation: a place where the lived, the observed and the imagined end up forming the same matter.
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