Archive pour l'année : 2016

Du 5 février au 29 mai 2016 à Ségovie (Espagne)

Rétrospective Alberto Reguera au musée d’art contemporain de Segovia

Performance d’Alberto Reguera au Musée d’Art Contemporain de Ségovie

El Aura de la Pintura

1990-2015

The Esteban Vicente Contemporary Art Museum presents the exhibition Alberto Reguem. ”El Aura de la Pintura”, 1990—2015, the first retrospective of this artist in Spain who, although born in Segovia, divides his time between Madrid and Paris, and also more recently Asia.

Through a selection of his pieces, created between 1990 and 2015, we will witness the evolution of the work of this artist which, although it has its roots in his admiration for those painters representing the French Lyric Abstraction of the 1950’s (Schneider, Hartung, Tal Coat, Olivier Debré), it also glances towards American abstract expressionism, particularly the Color Field Painting and its aesthetic references to painters such as Monet, Turner and Claudio de Lorena.

The leitmotiv of the show is the individual way in which the artist conceives the landscape, through the various elements he utilizes to navigate his work: painting, pictorial installation, expansive painting, photography and video. In this way the transition, evolution and interaction of the different media are influenced, by means of a journey in which the landscape and the volume help to expand the work both physically and visually.

Reguera conceives his creations with aim to transmit visual depth and volume. The overlapping of brushstrokes and chromatism intends to create different visual snapshots within the same work, within the same space, thus inciting the viewer to dive into several Visual rhythms, some more pivotal than others, appearing together in equilibrium within the same work. In this way, the same piece promotes different “chromatic resonances”, different Vibrations of the materials. This is how the volume is created, not only through the external layer of the painting but also from its interior.

The combination of the strong physical expression of the work — owing to the amount of material used — together with its chromatic resonance, results in these pieces transcending its physical boundaries, thus expanding them visually. In the case of large formats, the painting takes in the air that surrounds it and envelopes the viewer. This effect is the inspiration for Reguera to physically expand some of his works, to paint the aura of the painting, to make it physical, to create “expanding paintings”.

The exhibition occupies three rooms of the Museum. A first space that houses pieces of great forcefulness which, given their luminosity and the strength of their texture, can stand independently and do not need to be supported by others of the same series.

In the other two rooms, a relationship between the works is established with the purpose of combining very different pieces, both in terms of their color and their form, thus generating between them contrasting and connecting forces. The intention of playing with the asymmetry and with the construction is to command the attention of the viewer. In other cases, the combination of the artworks achieves a sequence, a kind of landscape of paintings, where each guides our eyes to the next in a game of Visual union, of harmonic and lineal rhythm. The paint, when disconnected from the wall, will find a place where it can become a pictorial installation which will interact with the viewer is such a way that surrounds them both visually and physically.

Part of the exhibition is dedicated to the photographic facet of the artist. Alberto Reguera conceives photography as a tool to be used prior to the creation of the piece, it is something like a ”mental sketch”, a reflection of the external landscape which, with his work, is reconstructed as an internal landscape.

As a complement to the exhibition, a documentary area is incorporated, in which the collaboration between Alberto Reguera and the poet Francisco Pino in ”Poemas de la Ultima Mirada” is shown, as well as a selection of travelling notebooks that include original drawings by the artist.