OBRA

Elena Alonso, Antonio Ballester Moreno, José Díaz, Julia Huete, Miguel Marina, Kiko Pérez, Guillermo Pfaff 

Until March 25th 2024

A+B Gallery presents Obra, a group show focusing on a certain contemporary Spanish painting production, with the participation of: Elena Alonso (Madrid, 1981), Antonio Ballester Moreno (Madrid, 1977), José Díaz (Madrid, 1981), Julia Huete (Ourense, 1990), Miguel Marina (Madrid, 1989), Kiko Pérez (Vigo, 1982) and Guillermo Pfaff (Barcelona, 1976). Following the exhibition “Farbe,” centered on the German context, the gallery investigates and extrapolates from another specific cultural context a selection of research in line with the painting approach that A+B Gallery has been pursuing in recent years. The title Obra emphasizes a factual aspect of the act of painting, in which points of tension, idea and material are expressed on the canvas participating in their historical and contemporary context. The artists selected for Obra are connected to each other considering various cultural data and factors such as belonging to a generational period, mainly covering the 1980s as the year of birth, or the late 1970s, a common path in terms of studies, although from different Spanish regions, and above all the common geographical area of action, specifically that of the city of Madrid, where the artists have settled and regularly operate in recent years in city galleries and institutions. The exhibition unfolds between the two poles of city and landscape – a metaphor for painting itself – and their translation into artificial and natural, synthetic and organic.