Aleix Albareda - SUNNY IT WITH SMILES

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This series of paintings offers a particular interpretation of the contemporary landscape, in which nature, memory, and abstraction coexist within the same pictorial surface. Trees and plant forms constitute the starting point, but they are progressively transformed by a structure of grids, vertical lines, fragmentation and overlaps that challenge the immediate perception of the image.
The grid acquires an essential role as a construction element and, at the same time, as a rupture. It divides the landscape, partially hides it and forces the viewer to reconstruct it visually. In front of this geometric structure, the painting maintains a strong gestural dimension: stains, smudges, transparencies, drips and accumulations of matter provide rhythm, depth, and tension.
Color also has an expressive function. The contrasts between blacks and greens, reds, oranges, yellows, pinks and blues generate different moods without abandoning the series' conceptual unity. Nature thus appears not as a literal representation, but as an emotional and fragmentary experience.
There is a constant tension in these works between order and chaos, figuration and abstraction, structure and gesture. The recognizable landscape remains present, but subjected to a process of decomposition and reconstruction that makes it something more ambiguous and personal.
The square format of 112 × 112 cm gives the compositions a strong, enveloping presence. They are works designed to be contemplated not only as images of a landscape, but as surfaces where the landscape is transformed into matter, memory, and pictorial language.
Together, the series presents a contemporary view on nature: a landscape that does not aim to reproduce what we see, but to express what remains in our gaze after having seen it.