'Visual Material' by Ramon Surinyac at the Anquins Art Gallery

The Anquins Art Gallery presents the exhibition Matèrial Visual by the artist Ramon Surinyac (Barcelona, 1974). With an international artistic career, Surinyac is exhibiting for the first time in the Anquins gallery his scenographies of nature. The paintings of Surinyac observed from a distance offer us a realistic, almost photographic vision. However, when approaching the piece it opens up and becomes an almost lyrical abstraction.

Surinyac captures nature from a very intimate and personal side. On a leafy and dark background, creeping vegetation impregnates the fabric that takes capricious shapes and dives into a space of mirrors and symmetries. The result is a work in which nature and artifice merge, generating an optical effect, illusory and full of dynamism and ambivalence.

As the art critic Montse Frisach explains in the text of the catalog: "The landscape is such a classic genre that has been reinvented so many times throughout the history of art that facing it with a new look is a challenge ... In the case of Surinyac, the landscape is already integrated into the very process of painting it. In the first phase of the development of his works, there are always photographs that the painter takes during his walks on the beaches, forests or mountains. It is in the workshop, where the artist cuts out fragments of the images and assembles a new one with the scraps. It is this collage of places that do not exist that he finally ends up painting. In the same way that many painters build the scene of a still life or a portrait, Surinyac reconstructs landscapes. His work, therefore, is a set of scenographies of nature and the viewer does not suspect it because the result resonates with so many other mountains or undergrowth that he has repeatedly seen..."