Aleix Albareda - A LLADURS BLACK POSSIBILITY

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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, greys and whites, the painted material becomes landscape, memory and imprint. The surfaces appear fragmented, eroded and reconstructed through stains, gestures, transparencies and geometric weaves that coexist with a more free and 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. Grids, modules and texture fields organize the apparent chaos and establish a tension between order and overflow. The landscape stops being a literal representation to become an experience: something that is 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 resemble remnants of a rational structure that the painting itself strives to undo. From this confrontation emerges a powerful, almost archaeological image, where each layer seems to contain the trace of another earlier one.
The square format of 112 × 112 cm reinforces this frontal and enveloping experience: the eye does not easily find an entry or exit point, but gets trapped in a surface that expands in all directions.
They are works that speak, ultimately, of concrete places without being confined to them. Painting thus becomes a space of sedimentation: a place where the lived, the observed and the imagined end up forming one and the same matter.
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