Jordi Alcaraz traces an invisible line between visual poetry and conceptual projection, laying before the viewer an unprecedented, surprising and metaphorical relationship with the world. Alcaraz’s art blends different disciplines with a discourse that has emerged from the classical plastic tradition and meditates on volume, language and time through the use of materials such as water, glass, mirrors, pigments, books and stone. A transgressive artist creating a dynamic of opposing gazes, material tensions and perforations that enable us to glimpse hidden, magical spaces that transcend optical exclusivity.
Starting with figurative work of an expressionist nature, in the mid-1950s Alcoy was a founding member of the Sílex Group and turned more towards geometric abstraction and informalism. In 1963 he ended his informalist period to return to figuration with work of a decidedly dreamlike character. Later, in the 1970s, he quit advertising and graphic design to concentrate on painting, while at the same time broadening his artistic remit to include other forms of expression, such as sculpture and jewellery. Up until his early death, his works of magical figuration displayed a range of constants such as landscape, madness, apocalypse and chaos.
Despite starting her career in the pictorial discipline, Alicia Alegre expresses her feelings and emotions through three-dimensionality. Her works start from abstraction and are transformed into forceful volumes of slow rhythms from which feminine forms germinate. She uses the materials offered to us by the earth (terracotta, wood and bronze) and fuses art and nature.
R. Pomel was a painter of still lifes, of small elements wrapped by an exhaustive study of light and shade. The choice of a theme and the artist’s three-dimensional vision are the result constant research into, and experimentation with, the volume and textures that coexist within the sculptural discipline.
Xavi Bou is a photographer with a degree in Geography. After completing his studies at GrisArt he focused on working in fashion and advertising photography. In 2015, he presented a personal project – Ornitografies – and ornithological photography has become his main occupation. He has published several articles and held numerous exhibitions around the world, most recently at La Destil·leria Art Gallery, in Mataró (2020).
With echoes of American abstract expressionism, Manu Algueró's immense canvases draw us in with their interplay of matter, colour and artist’s gesture in search of visual impact. The large amount of paint used to create multiple textures, shades and reliefs is applied with a spontaneity that is often subsequently scrutinised and modified. Besides their technical vigour, his works also show the artist's interest in the study of the human face, which is suggested by his highly dramatic unfinished figures.
Carme Aliaga’s creations are the result of a reflection on the transience of memory, stimuli of memories. Sensitive paintings made by the superposition-extirpation of colours – ochres, blues, whites and reds – which evoke Pompeian mural paintings. Drawings of Greek ceramics, lilies, fish, friezes, Greek letters, stars, snails and maps, symbols that connect to antiquity, when the world and life begins. Iconography recovered from the past, fragments of space, time and reality framed within a contemporary context; coiled images that reveal the cyclical evolution of history in which the mystery of creation is recommences.
Salvador Alibau is considered to be the most important and original creator with paper in our country. By experimenting with cellulose fibre and paper, Alibau developed his own creative technique: he applied layers of cellulose in water in such a way that, despite being a controlled process, the vagaries of the water’s movements influenced the outcome. This exploration of the media and materials did not respond to a particular aesthetic or formal concern but rather to a poetics of the material and its own dynamics. The two themes that interested Alibau were nature and mathematics, to the extent that he ended up creating the concept of mathemartics, which unites science and intuition. His sculptures in public spaces are also noteworthy and he dedicated his final years to that work.
Bàrbara Allende Gil de Biedma has been known as Ouka Leele since the eighties. She was a distinguished, self-taught photographer who garnered prestigious recognition for her prominent role in La Movida Madrileña, a countercultural movement during the transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain in the eighties. For some she represents the standard of postmodernity. Her pop style and the lighting of her black and white photographs with intensely chromatic watercolours are the most characteristics traits of her work. She represents what she lives and knows, the experiences, research, learning and understanding of art as an absolute consecration. She was awarded the Premio de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid in 2003, and the Premio Nacional de Fotografía, from the Ministerio de Cultura in 2005.
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