Aleix Albareda - THROUGH STORM AND STRIFE

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This series of paintings proposes a particular interpretation of the contemporary landscape, in which nature, memory and abstraction coexist within a single pictorial surface. Trees and vegetal shapes constitute the starting point, but they are progressively transformed through a structure of grids, vertical lines, fragmentations and superpositions that challenge the immediate perception of the image.
The grid takes on an essential role as both a constructive element and, at the same time, 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 material provide rhythm, depth and tension.
Color also plays an expressive role. The contrasts between blacks and greens, reds, oranges, yellows, pinks and blues generate different moods while not abandoning the series' conceptual unity. Nature thus appears not as a literal representation, but as an emotional and fragmentary experience.
There is in these works a constant tension 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 more ambiguous and personal.
The square format of 112 × 112 cm gives the compositions a bold and enveloping presence. They are works conceived to be viewed not only as images of a landscape, but as surfaces where the landscape is transformed into matter, memory and pictorial language.
Together, the series offers a contemporary take on nature: a landscape that does not aim to reproduce what we see, but to express what remains in our gaze after we have looked at it.