Aleix Albareda - ALL IS DARKNESS BUT CLARIANA

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REDARKNES·S - Acrylics on canvas, 112 × 112 cm
These paintings build a territory between the recognizable and the imagined. Starting from an essential palette of blacks, grays, and whites, the pictorial matter becomes landscape, memory, and trace. 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 continuous transformation. Light does not originate 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 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 to be remains 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 another previous one.
The square format of 112 × 112 cm reinforces this frontal, immersive experience: the eye does not easily find an entry or exit point but remains trapped in a surface that expands in all directions.
They are works that, ultimately, speak of concrete places without being limited to them. The painting thus becomes a sedimentation space: a place where the lived, the observed, and the imagined end up forming a single matter.
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