On a foundation of paint sensitive to material and the attitude of gesture, we are honored to present ‘Fondo,’ Mateo Revillo’s first solo exhibition at Alzueta Gallery. Aiming to blur the lines between artwork and architecture, creating an experience where the separation between the pieces and their surroundings becomes ambiguous. Each piece, through its form and material, establishes a close relationship with space, transforming empty voids into fragments that evoke an imaginary past life.

Following this premise, this project constructs an alphabet of cutouts. Most are seemingly basic forms: an arrow, an oval, a triangle, a canvas; while others carry some architectural ambition: modular, expandable.

All of these serve as an homage to trompe-l’oeil, a collection of memorabilia from various aspects that, at some point, captured the artist’s attention: the shape his coat forms each time he hangs it on the studio’s entrance coat rack, the ellipse drawn by bull’s eye windows when light enters through their glass, a coat of arms carved in the stone of a building, now devoid of signs due to the passage of time, creating an anonymous inverted triangle.