Aleix Albareda - TAKE ME TO LLOBERA, TAKE ME NOW

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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 painting matter becomes landscape, memory and trace. The surfaces appear fragmented, eroded and reconstructed through stains, gestures, transparencies and geometric textures that coexist with a freer and 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 that surround 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 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 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 where nature, memory and human intervention coexist. The geometric shapes seem to be remnants of a rational structure that the painting’s own matter strives to undo. From this confrontation emerges 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, immersive experience: the eye does not easily find an entry or exit point, but becomes trapped on a surface that expands in all directions.
These are works that speak, ultimately, of concrete places without being limited to them. The painting thus becomes a space of sedimentation: a place where the lived, the observed and the imagined finally form the same material.
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