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
Mirco Marchelli
Se fosse sol da far
This March, Alzueta Gallery presents Se fosse sol da far, a solo exhibition by Mirco Marchelli (Italy, 1963). The show will open at Alzueta Gallery Barcelona Sèneca on March 13th and will be open for viewing until April 26th, 2025.
Starting from a wordplay, the title evokes both the simplicity of the creative act —emphasizing the importance of doing in the artistic process— and a reference to musical language —sol, fa— embracing the multidisciplinarity character that defines Marchelli’s work. Composer, musician and visual artist, in this project, the artist proposes a video that accompanies the exhibition as if it was a visual opera. Thus, the works acquire a scenographic value in relation to music.
In Se fosse sol da far, the pieces stem from a fascination with purely everyday objects and discarded fragments —pieces of wood, plaster, ceramics, fabric…— remnants that, once transfigured and assembled by the artist, are transformed into sculpture-objects, serene and abstract landscapes that are imbued with memory. Each work in this exhibition participates in a collective narrative, shaping a “daily opera” that combines the poetic gesture with an almost archaeological exploration of the past. Marchelli takes advantage of modest and simple materials to draw on their ancient stories and suggest new associations and readings of the past.
The artist experiences both musical composition and visual art in parallel, a shared process that does not distinguish between artistic mediums. In Marchelli’s words, «My art, like my music, originates from things that already exist. Mine is a game of assembly”. The artist-composer considers the materials as themes that gain significance once unified in a new narrative, punctuated by empty spaces or moments of silence. Marchelli’s exhibition is constructed from a layering of elements and voices, just as in an opera, creating a scenography in which recycled objects become actors.
Marchelli’s aesthetic differs from the ornamentalism of Baroque opera and answers to a sensibility he would describe as salubre asciuttezza mediterranea; the simplicity, rawness, and essentiality of an aesthetic tradition rooted in ancient Mediterranean culture. Se fosse sol da far is part of the exploration for the essential, the simple, and the static, with the aim of discovering the deep and immeasurable brilliance that has connected all artistic expressions throughout time.
From 13-03-2025 to 26-04-2025
