The exhibition Panorama focuses on the urban landscape and nature through painting and photography.
Alejandro S. Garrido will present a new project in which he documents the transformation that the British capital has immersed itself in after the financial crisis of 2008. Garrido composes a panoramic view of the city’s current situation through selected strategic locations. These, although scattered across the map, constitute a single emerging urban system. Perhaps that’s why they are particularly revealing when it comes to explaining both the accelerated financialization of the city and the implications that this new mode of growth has on the lives of its inhabitants.
Santiago Giralda paints landscapes from images he takes with his camera or picks up from the Internet. His compositions highlight the contemporary landscape as a cultural construction, where the multitude of images, texts, and references that define it becomes more relevant than its nature. The project reflects the position nature occupies in the contemporary context, in which predesigned spaces replace natural conditions. In the urban environment, the natural becomes the non-natural.
In the case of Nico Munuera, his paintings deal with the physical characteristics of the materials he uses and the processes with which he paints them, based on horizontal sweeping strokes of flattened pigments. His final works of art are open to interpretation. For example, references to landscapes and gardens, metaphors of works of art, and certain elements of Japanese culture, have been part of his work for some time now.
Juan Uslé will present new vivid paintings and works on paper that engages the viewer through entrancing rhythmic patterns that exist in a dual state of being: embracing repetition while practicing singularity. Sourcing inspiration between memories lived and dreamt, these patterns can be evocative of the vibrations and movement of bustling New York City, where he lives and works for part of the year; echo the fluidity of bodies of water and unique sequences found in nature; or serve as a transcript of real-time through a filmstrip-like recording of the artist’s heartbeat.
