Exhibitions
Human and Urban by Kike Meana. A pictorial journey between technical diversity and emotional strength.
Fifth exhibition of the annual cycle of plastic arts at the Benedormiens Castle in Castell d'Aro.
Meana has inaugurated the exhibition Human and Urban at the Castell de Benedormiens, in Castell-Platja d'Aro, with around thirty works, many of which have been donated by collectors. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a large oil on canvas measuring eight metres wide by almost two and a half metres high.
The artist presents a careful selection of pieces that will be on view until September 28, an exhibition that reflects the richness and complexity of his creative career. This set of works highlights the great diversity of both techniques and themes that he has explored over the years, in a constant research process that deliberately avoids repetitive formulas. Each piece is conceived as a new challenge, a different territory that the artist faces with a renewed look and a specific approach, which has allowed him to develop a personal visual language, with a great capacity for adaptation and a clear desire for continuous transformation.
Presentation event for the new exhibition by Kike Meana.
The exhibition includes works ranging from landscapes —both urban and natural— to in-depth studies of the human figure. Each of these areas is approached with a particular sensitivity, varying in stroke, compositional rhythm and use of materials, which reveals not only the artist's versatility, but also his commitment to a living artistic practice, open to experimentation and dialogue with the world around him. In this sense, the exhibition becomes an opportunity to enter a creative universe in constant evolution, where each drawing is a witness to a gaze that observes, interprets and reformulates reality from ever-changing perspectives.
At the Castell de Benedormiens you can explore a variety of styles with Kike Meana and the exhibition Human and Urban where the viewer is offered multiple interpretations and aesthetic experiences. The variety of visual resources that Kike Meana uses in each of his works is one of the most remarkable distinctive features of his artistic production. Far from limiting himself to a single technique or a recognizable aesthetic, Meana experiments with multiple plastic languages, textures, compositions and formal approaches that deeply enrich each piece. This capacity for constant innovation allows him to endow his creations with a very personal expressiveness, where each stroke, each shadow or each chromatic choice adds nuances to an intense and deeply human visual story.
This versatility not only brings uniqueness to each work, but also invites the viewer to take an emotional and visually rich journey through his creative universe. It is a journey that does not remain on the surface, but directly appeals to sensitivity and individual interpretation, awakening multiple possible readings. In this sense, Meana's work is not only admired for its technical quality, but also for its ability to generate intimate connections with the audience, who is challenged by the strength and complexity of the images, charged with intention and open to dialogue.
Currently, Kike Meana is immersed in the creation of what will be, to date, the most ambitious and largest piece of his artistic career: an imposing oil on canvas measuring eight meters wide by 2.40 meters high. This monumental work was born with the desire to fix, through pictorial language, a visual memory of the DANA that hit the city of Valencia hard in October 2024.
Beyond documenting an extreme climatic episode, Meana presents this composition as a symbolic and emotional chronicle of the human capacity to resist, rebuild and move forward in the face of adversity. The work, which combines great narrative power with meticulous technical execution, aspires to become not only a testimony of the moment experienced, but also a reflection on the fragility and strength of urban communities in the face of global changes. In this way, the artist turns a local fact into a universal metaphor, with a committed and deeply humanistic perspective.
