Galeria Pelaires
5 June @ 18:00 - 11 September @ 18:00
Planta Baja: La lección de geometría – Alejandro Campins
These paintings conjure dreamlike states and spaces of uncanny landscapes and ambiguous structures. In Campins’s work, technique and imagery come together to evoke otherworldly atmospheres that suggest emptiness but at the same time seem filled with a psychological charge that is as powerful as it is elusive. Executed primarily in oil paint (as well as with watercolor and pencil), Campins’s work displays a classically grounded command of line and composition and a heightened sensibility for chromatic hues and overtones. His brushwork is subtle but assured and his use of color is muted but finely calibrated, yielding veiled and seemingly weathered surfaces that echo the content of the paintings’ imagery. In Campins’s work, there is a sense that past and future are overlaid, remembrance and imagination are intertwined, permanence and impermanence co-exist.
Planta Noble: Ni mundo interior ni mundo exterior – Carlos Garaicoa
Carlos Garaicoa is a Cuban contemporary artist, specializing in photography and installations. Garaicoa became a prominent Cuban artist in the nineteen-nineties after a massive exodus of artists who had played a decisive role in the Cuban art movement of the nineteen-eighties.
Pati: Leunora Salihu
Leunora Salihu (Pristina, Kosovo, 1977) is a sculptor whose work explores the intersections between form, space, and materiality. She studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Pristina before fleeing to Germany in 1999, where she continued her studies at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel and later at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, graduating in 2009 under the tutelage of Tony Cragg.
Her artistic practice focuses on material research, combining ceramics, wood, and metal to create sculptural compositions that challenge conventional relationships between movement and stability, volume and void, function and abstraction.
Pelaires Cabinet: All I Do the Whole Day Through – Pace Taylor
Pace Taylor (b. 1992) is a soft pastel artist whose work is emotionally preoccupied with intimacy and the people we choose to build it with. They received their BFA in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon in 2015 and have since exhibited internationally at venues including Nationale, Upfor, Oregon Contemporary, ILY2, and La Loma Projects (USA); Double V Gallery (Paris); Weserhalle (Berlin); and Rhodes Contemporary (London).
