ART MIAMI 2022
Jordi Alcaraz, Hugo Alonso, Gabrielle Graessle, David Macho, Xevi Solà, Guim Tió, Andrea Torres, Luis Vidal
In the same way that in the 1930s numerous American writers and artists embarked on a journey through Europe in search of the European myth, at the Alzueta Gallery we have set out to travel back in time and alter the past.
In an attempt to capture a collective idea, we have brought together six artists of diverse nationalities with a single motto to guide their creative process: to convert into images the ideas that inhabit the European subconscious about the American dream: from the modernity and maximum prosperity of the bustling streets of NY, to the Big Brother effect of LA; from the beach and sun of Miami to the iconography and harsh sunshine of the Wild West.
All of our elders feel they have been among tumbleweeds and galloped on the shoulders of a stallion across the plains of Texas. Their readings and movie afternoons consist of it. All our adults know the Big Apple even if they’ve never been there and know what a Banana Splitz tastes like because Danny Zuko showed it to them. Every teenager knows what goes on in the streets of Beverly Hills almost as if they live there, just from social media.
From the naivety, humor and acid truth of an idea that has been formed over generations on the other side of the Atlantic, our artists connect with that ideal of the «purely imaginary.»
Xevi Sola Serra (Spain, 1969) is a Spanish painter working with figuration from a bold and powerful perspective. The characters he depicts are unique, rare and beautiful, each one of them captured in a modest and intimate moment. His works, far from showing just what is there at plain sight, capture a feeling, a sensation that is there and that creates a tacit bond between the onlooker and the painter.
Wearing colorful and eye-catching attires, the people portrayed in his artworks are made using colorful strokes that tend to create even more deepness in their looks and highlight their intriguing and captivating poses. Xevi’s work serves as a reminder of the beauty in boldness and rarity, and how figurative art can still be edgy and aligned with our times.
XEVI SOLÀ
BACKSTAGE
2022. Oil on canvas. 164 x 132 cm
CORNELL
2022. Oil on canvas. 76 x 63 cm
OLIVIA
2022. Oil on canvas. 116 x 89 cm
HANDMAID
2022. Oil on canvas. 76 x 63 cm
ANDREA TORRES
Andrea Torres (Spain, 1990)’ work is influenced by dreams and surrealism, exploring the relationship between femininity and nature through the symbolism and dream transcription technique. Inspired by references to psychoanalysis theory and magic realism, her pictures experiment with the conscious-subconscious. Thinking about the scene-action concept, she creates pictures that suggest stories and invites the spectator to interpret them, searching to experiment with the boundaries between reality and fiction. Andrea is graduated in Fine Arts by University of Barcelona. After winning the first award of Artevistas New Talents her work has been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, New York, London, Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, Miami, Mexico and many Art Fairs in Europe.
SESAME
2022. Black and White analog photograph on Hahnemüle Rag Baryta Paper intervened with acrylic paint. 185 x 158 cm.
BOUVARDIA
2022.
Black and White analog photograph on Hahnemühle Rag
Baryta Paper intervened with acrylic paint. 60 x 45 cm.
TULIP
2022.
Black and White analog photograph on Hahnemühle Rag
Baryta Paper intervened with acrylic paint. 60 x 45 cm.
Gabrielle Graessle (Switzerland, 1956) and has been fascinated by painting and drawing since she was a child.
In 2015, she settled down in Andalusia, and decided to immerse herself completely in her imaginary world again and to express herself in large format, coloured, intuitive and figurative paintings.
Her studio is located in a group of old cottages out in nowhere-land. There is no distraction and she is concentrated completely on her work, secluded in nature, 3 km from the seaside; there she works always on several canvases at the same time, creating multiple series of pictures.
At the same time, drawings are still an important part of her work. These are spontaneous expressions of her thoughts and stories. They are often the starting point for her paintings.
GABRIELLE GRAESSLE
MMH
2022. Acrylic and glitter on canvas
80 x 60 cm.
BIRKIN BY H.
2022. Acrylic and glitter on canvas
40 x 50 cm.
LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
2022. Acrylic, aerosol and glitter on canvas
160 x 130 cm
WIN WIN
2022. Acrylic, aerosol and glitter on canvas
160 x 130 cm
YEE YEE
2022. Acrylic, aerosol and glitter on canvas
160 x 130 cm
GUIM TIÓ
Guim Tió (Spain, 1987) is an artist from Barcelona. His study of painting began with an interest in the human condition, treated with humor and irony, deforming his characters seeking to reflect with provocation the tyranny of the taboos.
However, Guim’s work has evolved into a much more subjective and calm place.
Each work delicately presents a scene frozen forever. The artist has captured the heart of the art scene from the very beginning with his unique ability to freeze intimate moments, now eternally ours.
THE FEVER
2022. Oil on canvas. 57 x 48 cm.
NEAR THE TOP
2022. Oil on canvas. 57 x 48 cm.
Jordi Alcaraz (Spain, 1963) draws an invisible line between visual poetry and conceptual projection, and proposes to the viewer an unprecedented, surprising and metaphorical relationship with the world. Multidisciplinary hybridization, in which the speech of Alcaraz, emerged from the classical plastic tradition, meditating on volume, language and time through the use of certain materials such as water, glass, mirror, pigment, book or the stone.
Transgressive artist, creator of a game of confronted looks, of material tensions and perforations that allow us to glimpse hidden and magical spaces that transcend the optical exclusivity.
JORDI ALCARAZ
L’ESCULTOR
2022. Drypoint on methacrylate, iron and spiral notebook
65 x 55 x 6 cm
SENSE TÍTOL
2022. Drypoint on methacrylate, iron and spiral notebook
65 x 55 x 6 cm
SENSE TÍTOL
2022. Drypoint on methacrylate, iron and spiral notebook
65 x 55 x 6 cm
DAVID MACHO
David Macho (Spain, 1994) Graduated in Art from the University of the Basque Country and mastered in research in art and design from the
research in art and design by the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
his artistic practice around the «bureaucratic plasticity», understanding its relationship with the system as an aesthetic problem.
This consciously defeatist attitude was the cause of making him stand out for his peculiar way of creating narratives, using his peculiar way of creating narratives, using criticism and cynicism as a means of presentation.
David Macho went from being an innocent being with illusion to an art mercenary with humor.
ONCE UPON A TIME THE END
2022. Oil on canvas. 72 x 61 cm
The last few years I have been working on a project in which I explore the relationship between cinematic reality and our everyday life. Also the possible analogies between the history of painting and cinema.
The fiction in movies helps me to know the environment in which I live and to know myself. Movies are my source of visual and conceptual resources. I’m interested in our sense of permission with movies, how, due to their fictional nature, they approach unimaginable subjects within the social codes that make a reality such as ours remain regulated.
Recurring motifs in the history of painting such as the landscape, the house, the salon, or the figure often play a major role in my work, as a cinematographic plane that goes from the general to the singular.
Each painting, seemingly normal, encloses some enigma, some unstable element, one or more visual fissures that places the image close to the conventional but in a different terrain, supposedly familiar but really unknown.
Hugo Alonso (Spain, 1981)
HUGO ALONSO
SUGAR
2022. Acrylic on Belgium linen. 146 x 97 cm.
OUT
2022. Acrylic on Belgium linen. 146 x 97 cm.
LUIS VIDAL
Born in Barcelona in 1970. He is one of the Spanish artists with the greatest international projection. He has exhibited in Germany, Denmark, Canada, Brazil and the USA. His work, located between social commitment and the most innovative artistic configurations, revolves around socially controversial issues.
Luis Vidal moves with ease in the fields of sculpture, installation, leather engraving and drawing; he also circulates his work in the most prestigious museums and international galleries. However, his work has not strayed from that irritating subversive quality, walks his own path without being trapped in the cogs of the elite of collectors or art critics. Vidal is endowed with a more global perspective on the harsh reality that surrounds us. Life – in all its inner violence, corruption and endless struggle between good and evil – is channeled in his installations not as a consecrated, provocative formalism, but as an emotional experience under construction, which is, therefore, capable of being contemplated by the viewer with the necessary critical detachment.
HELP WOLF
2022. Glazed ceramic. 43 x 27 x 30 cm
BEAR
2022. Glazed ceramic. 42 x 28 x 23 cm