LOOSE LEAVES, at Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery
The exhibition LOOSE LEAVES opens in the #LACRIPTAPROJECTS space at Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery,presenting a selection of works from the last ten years that summarise my artistic research during this period.
The exhibition brings together works developed from an artist residency in the Arctic and a research stay in Xinjiang (China), Mongolia, and Buryatia (Russia). The project is part of the APERTURA programme (Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend 2025).
In LOOSE LEAVES, two key works from my recent research are presented. On the one hand, REGISTRO 42, a large-scale painting conceived from the atmospheric features of Hövsgöl, in Mongolia, where colour and non-colour, fullness and emptiness, the made and the raw coexist. On the other hand, LOOSE LEAVES (panel 2), a working panel that brings together records of the High Arctic atmosphere, including painted and found papers, natural materials, accidents, errors, noise and silence, as well as word lists and references to other disciplines.
Both works arise from a direct experience in territories of steppe, tundra, taiga and Arctic regions, and evoke an essential and extreme atmosphere, situated at the limit, on the verge of ceasing to be. Due to its intimate scale and silence, La Cripta becomes a particularly suitable space for the painting to speak for itself.
The exhibition LOOSE LEAVES can be visited at Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery and coincides with a solo exhibition by the Italian painter Giorgio Griffa.
