When De Kooning takes the floor at the symposium «What is Abstract Art?» held at the MoMa in 1951, the artist, who had gone through different pictorial journeys until he reached abstraction, refers to art as the always mute part you can talk about forever. And it is a great definition. From the beginning, abstract art has generated an intense debate that transcends artistic theory. Issues such as language, the formal or what is represented return again and again to the center of the discourse.

«Even animals realize that we are not at home in the interpreted world.» Hegel maintained that language forms and alienates us, and at the same time, makes us strangers to ourselves. Without exception, pictorial language has also been subject to interpellation and change. De Kooning insists on not differentiating between abstract or naturalistic painting, because according to him it is all part -and so it must be- of the tireless search of the artist who works to satisfy no one but himself. «If I paint abstract art, that’s what abstract art means to me.»

In ‘What Abstract Art Means to Me’, an exhibition that opens on January 25th at Alzueta Gallery’s main space in Barcelona, the formal strategies of eleven artists become mixed, even though each one of them navigates abstraction in different ways.

25-01-2024 to 23-02-2024

Alzueta Gallery Barcelona Sèneca

C/ Sèneca 9-11, Int Bajos
08006 Barcelona

Tel: +34 93 238 97 50
info@alzuetagallery.com

Monday to Friday 09:00 – 14:00 / 16:00 – 19:00 and Saturday 11:00 – 14:00 / 16:00 – 19:00