The Zaragoza-based Carmen Terreros Art Gallery is once again part of the Estampa Contemporary Art Fair, which will be held from October 17 to 20, 2024 at the Ifema fairgrounds in Madrid.
For this edition, with a 50 square meter stand, the gallery has made a big bet with a meticulous selection of works by four of its artists: Cristina Alabau, Susana Reberdito, Miguel Villarino and the Aragonese Santiago Arranz.
Santiago Arranz.
Santiago, an Aragonese artist, is rigorous, conscientious, intellectual, theoretical, and practical. Versatile and independent, his work encompasses many facets, though these characteristics are consistent throughout. The interrelation of his paintings with writing and literature is a constant theme in his oeuvre. However, as the artist himself confesses, his work is not a way of illustrating literary works, but rather a pictorial reinterpretation of them.
In the centenary year of Kafka's death, the gallery has selected a powerful work, visually striking both for its subject matter—torture—and for the artist's masterful representation of the pieces. A work from Kafka's series, in which the artist reinterprets "The Penal Colony," this powerful piece, composed of four works on paper, could easily be seen as a reflection of the suffering inherent in any wartime situation, making it entirely relevant today.
A work alluding to Lorca has also been selected, with a piece that evokes "Poet in NY", an artistic vision on the themes addressed by Federico García Lorca in his work Poet in New York, written during his stay at Columbia University in 1929-30.
Finally, another visually striking work, made with paper and wood, "Echoes of Silence," which refers to the writer F. Cheng.
Cristina Alabau
This Valencian artist has created most of the work for this edition of Estampa; you can see work on canvas and also on cardboard in different formats.
The artist recreates a landscape stripped of all artificial and superficial elements, minimizing it until it reaches pure, geometric, abstract forms. Humankind integrates itself into nature as an active element, finding a balance with it.
The four elements of nature—water, fire, earth, and air—are represented in his work with his own intimate, personal, almost dreamlike language, offering feelings that convey buoyancy, energy, strength, and weightlessness, “a subtle opposition of opposites, balancing forces and harmonizing tensions”…
Her palette is elegant, understated, and free of any harshness, creating an atmosphere, an almost transcendent feeling. Her works are balance and poetry for the senses.
His work is abstract, possessing organic forms like nature itself.
Susana Reberdito:
Born in San Sebastián, he lives in Germany, where he paints his beloved Cantabrian Sea almost obsessively. We will see works of both large and small formats painted on linen.
This time, the gallery will exhibit recently created works, all of which evoke the Cantabrian Sea: strong colors, choppy waves, sometimes seen through an imaginary window, sometimes almost from within the sea itself. Susana Reberdito's work offers a synthesis of forms, painting ideas that explode in a chromatic spectrum that, above all, produces vitality.
Her work possesses a strong synesthetic character. If we understand synesthesia as a phenomenon that unites sensations—visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory—we can intuit that the artist's work will be an explosion of these sensations. That is what truly permeates her work: gesture, color, movement…
Miguel Villarino
Miguel Villarino, painter and engraver, presents pieces made on different themes; night, mirrors, and labyrinths are recurring formal elements in the history of art and literature, which proposes an endless number of possible interpretations that let the imagination soar.
Miguel's work is vibrantly colorful yet profoundly meaningful in its language and the artist's intent. The dark night alludes to the mystics of the Spanish Golden Age, but also to complicated personal situations; the flight of the bird (his son); and the labyrinth of a hostile city, a labyrinth that again evokes Cretan mythology, depicting a complex, labyrinthine city with a challenge in the form of the Minotaur.
In the selected works we find large format canvases and small papers that likewise recreate the artist's imagination.
Also, some wooden compositions in the style of Torres García, put the finishing touch on Villarino's selected proposal for the fair.
