Je suis en suite – Rafa Forteza

Rafa Forteza

Rafa Forteza (Palma, 1955) returns to the 6A TALLER I GALERIA D’ART with a solo exhibition under the title “JE SUIS, ENSUITE” (I am, then).
Forteza shares a specific project, in which the noise, in the best sense, pictorial becomes silence in order to invite the viewer to connect with the way of understanding the world, with emotions, with painting in its purest state.

The brushstroke can be, over time it has become more contained, more leisurely, more serene. nothing to do with a possible restlessness, the painter has a lot to say. Forteza is counting, painting, experiencing the different emotions, in layers. it is a constant addition, the isolation of the different pictorial elements is unthinkable because they merge into a whole. Forteza is incapable of subtracting.

Rafa Forteza is the author of a discourse that is at times dense and eloquent, in which the synthesis seems unthinkable, explosive, hot, powerful, without leaving any emotion, any thought, aside. If there is one thing that defines the painter, it is that he hides nothing. What he thinks, what he feels comes to the
surface, in a pictorial staging that does not leave indifferent anyone who decides to enter a limitless universe.

Maturity has positioned painting in a state of complete freedom, in which technical mastery allows it to explore any plot, whether in public or intimate. Forteza’s painting can be fragmented less and less each time, painting and painter are one whole. Over the years, painting has become a self-portrait. He speaks as he paints, he paints as he lives. A unique experience that he generously shares. The 6th offers an exhibition in which painting, lithography and above all paper are the protagonists.

The author has always had traditional printing techniques as a resource that he has made his own. He masters the technique of engraving and lithography like no one else. On this occasion, the graphics come together in a sort of suite of a unique pictorial series. The title refers to the terminology used in the language of intaglio printing throughout the history of art. In an inevitable play on words, Rafa Forteza puts us, once again, in front of the challenge of experiencing painting in freedom. The exhibition opens next Thursday, June 5th from 6pm to 10pm, as part of L’ART PALMA SUMMER.