Exhibitions
The Ecstasy of Madness by Alba E. Peligero
The Vinya dels Artistes de Mas Blanc i Jové incorporates the piece by the visual artist and sculptor resident in Vilanova de Sau.
Alba E. Peligero lands at La Vinya dels Artistes de Mas Blanc i Jové and does so with L'Èxtasi de la Bogeria , a work in the form of a temporary installation in the middle of the vineyards of Les Garrigues. A large-scale metallic sculptural construction that reaches 7.5 meters high by 5 meters wide, created from fragments of welded scrap metal with a structural shape of a disfigured arch.
The artist focuses his practice on the reuse of scrap metal and iron waste, materials that, once rejected for their functional use, recover new life through his creative gesture. With a technique based on assembly and welding, he constructs organic and abstract forms that escape from conventional figuration to explore more intuitive, emotional and symbolic territories. This process of transformation turns industrial fragments into bodies with their own expressive force, as if they contained a latent memory or ancestral energy.
His work questions established visual hierarchies, breaking with order and symmetry to propose fragmentary compositions that suggest mutations and morphological chimeras. These structures, often indefinite and open, are not limited to a single reading, but stimulate multiple interpretations. They are forms that can recall imaginary creatures, archaeological remains of a dystopian future or simply presences that challenge the viewer from a deep and mysterious place.
Through this hybrid visual language, the artist constructs a poetics of matter, in which iron becomes a metaphor for the passage of time, transformation and the capacity to reinvent itself. Each piece is an invitation to look beyond the surface, to find beauty in what has been discarded, and to establish an intimate and personal relationship with form and its eloquent silence.
The artist defends an open conception of the work, in which meaning is not closed or imposed, but emerges from the interaction with the observer. Far from proposing a univocal message, his creations act as catalysts for questions, rather than answers, and invite the viewer to actively participate in the construction of meaning. It is in this shared space —between the object and the gaze that interprets it— that a critical, plural and open thought is activated, transforming the aesthetic experience into an opportunity for personal and collective reflection.
This new piece from La Vinya dels Artistes by Mas Blanc and Jové d'Alba E. Peligero evokes natural forms such as the stone columns of the Collbató caves. According to the artist, "madness can be another way of seeing, another way of touching the world; this ecstasy is not exaltation but part of a path that has not always been defined with the same intensity", generating debate and encouraging people to share their own perceptions about the work.
A project that he started four years ago with Ecstasy and will now run in parallel with Katarsi , an exhibition with fifteen small sculptures inside the cellar. Each piece functions as a living, autonomous and disturbing being, which alters the pre-established order and destabilizes the visual and conceptual conventions that govern our perception of reality. Through the decontextualization of forms and materials, the artist challenges the dominant aesthetic codes and opens a process of critical rereading that questions what has been normalized. The work thus becomes an act of symbolic resistance, an invitation to rethink assumed values and imagine new forms of social and cultural understanding.
