Alzueta Gallery Barcelona Sèneca
The main goal of Alzueta Gallery is to represent the time in which it lives. To be the creative reflection that unites the will, the works and the desires, of the contemporary creators that it represents. Young, emerging and consolidated artists, Spanish and foreign artists, all of them united by one criteria, the eye of an aesthetic that tries to transgress the first and subtle layer of the form, to reach deeper places, where the ethic is the main purpose of art.
With an international vocation, Alzueta Gallery is present on all five continents, through Art Fairs, Collectors, Art Advisors, Digital platforms, and more, all this in order to make the gallery and its ethics to reach from Barcelona as many viewers as possible.
Alzueta Gallery is committed to modernity, to radicalism, to transformation, to ideas and to the politics of change, to everything that, from art, can improve people’s lives.
The gallery also presents its projects in the Palau de Casavells, a space of its own in the heart of the Empordà countryside, in a 16th century farmhouse, an unusual setting for its contemporary proposals.
Along with the gallery spaces, it has also launched an artist residency programme to support the creativity and the work of the contemporary artists of our time.
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
Current exhibitions
Group Show
The Walk
«The walker is always accompanied by something curious, reflective, and fantastic, and it would be foolish not to take it into account or even to push it away; but he does not do so; rather, he welcomes all kinds of strange and peculiar manifestations, makes friends and fraternizes with them, because he loves them, turns them into bodies with essence and configuration, gives them form and soul, while they, for their part, animate and shape him.» The Walk, by Robert Walser
Alzueta Gallery presents The Walk, a duo exhibition by Sune Christiansen (Denmark, 1976) and Juan Narowé (Brazil, 1993), at the Barcelona Sèneca gallery, open from January 30 to March 1. These two artists come together for the first time in the same space, united by a reflection on movement. During a stroll, we open ourselves to the world and to the unknown. Artists, like walkers, are nourished by this openness: they embrace the unforeseen, engage with the ephemeral, and transform it into pictorial matter. In The Walk, the act of walking becomes a metaphor for displacement, discovery, and transfiguration, resonating both in the imagery and the creative process itself. This encounter culminates in a proposal where the visual language of both artists converges in an unexpected way.
With expressive compositions and movement as a guiding thread, Christiansen and Narowé transform everyday moments into dynamic visual narratives. Though their works differ in form and technique, they resonate through a shared focus on the figure, the body, and the act of storytelling. In this way, the meaning of their pieces is not offered directly but unfolds slowly in the act of observing and interpreting, like a tale being told.
Christiansen explores figurative abstraction with a playful gesture that begins with digital sketches and evolves on the canvas through direct interaction with the materials, making spontaneity an essential element of his work. His compositions, characterized by free strokes and dynamic textures, evoke contemporary hieroglyphs, symbols of power, and gestures of intimacy. Shapes, often simple and mundane in origin, transform into the letters of a visual alphabet that «writes» stories filled with tension and complexity.
Narowé moves fluidly between drawing and painting, constructing a universe inhabited by fragments and characters born from memory, literature, and cinema. His work draws inspiration from everyday scenes, like a conversation or a memory after a meal, poetically distilling the essence of seemingly trivial moments. With a naïve quality, Narowé’s compositions conceal a profound reflection on the connections between the personal and the universal. In this exhibition, the artist portrays figures in motion: walkers, pilgrims, perhaps hikers, captured at the threshold between the mundane and the symbolic. It is as if each step carries the weight of a story yet to be deciphered.
Despite their distinct approaches, both artists share a common sensitivity: the creation of meaning from simple elements. In Christiansen’s near-hieroglyphic compositions and Narowé’s fragmented narratives alike, the viewer is invited to interpret and complete the story. Both succeed in crafting a visual language where what seems casual or accidental is, in truth, guided by an internal logic. As Christiansen puts it, «there is a sense of coincidence which is actually the opposite of coincidental.» Apparent randomness becomes a tool in the service of meticulously controlled order. This concept of «controlled chance» serves as a point of convergence between their works, where seemingly arbitrary forms and elements are carefully orchestrated to create a visual and narrative tension.
In this encounter, a visual dialogue unfolds where line, color, and composition function as a shared language, each with its own distinct accents and modulations. Thus, The Walk emerges as a shared journey, a stroll through visual landscapes that traverse figuration and abstraction, the direct and the evocative. Here, Christiansen and Narowé weave stories that, though distinct, resonate with an unexpected echo.
From 30-01-2025 to 01-03-2025
