Exhibitions
Ark by Raúl Díaz Reyes: memory, archetypes and gestures suspended in time
Contemporary aesthetics with historical roots, conceptual depth, Mediterranean and Latin American influences, multidisciplinarity and symbolic exploration, as well as narrative, come together to create Arca , the exhibition at the Zielinsky Gallery in Sao Paulo by the Spanish artist Raúl Díaz Reyes with a critical text by Camila Bechelany.
The exhibition reveals part of the recent production of paintings created on Brazilian soil. Zielinsky's exhibition presents itself as a symbolic and material medium—a kind of sounding board—that houses works capable of acting as reliquaries. Each piece contains enigmatic signs, fragments of memory, archetypes, and gestures frozen in time. They are capsules of open meaning, structures that invite both interpretation and quiet contemplation.
Passeio no bosquete, 2025.
Raúl Díaz Reyes's work is characterized by a minimalist visual approach, enriched with dreamlike and metaphysical nuances. His artistic practice focuses on the exploration of language within a specific cultural object, establishing a dialogue with the tradition of conceptual art.
“In my meeting with Raúl Díaz Reyes in his studio in São Paulo, he told me that his paintings begin in his memories. Not in photographs or from something seen through his window, but from memories of places he's visited, of experiences in landscapes frequented again and again in his hometown or in other cities. Arca's paintings are organized fragments of those memories. According to the artist, the works are like "time capsules, matrices of open meaning that invite deciphering or simply contemplation." And here the word "arca" as a time capsule seems to correspond to the crystal sphere in Jorge Luis Borges's story The Aleph, which is one of "the points in space that contains all the other points," writes Camila Bechelany about her connection with the artist and the exhibition in São Paulo.
Passeio do Príncipe (one way), 2025.
With just a few days left until the completion of Arca , there is a perfect fusion of nature/culture, poetry/painting, logos/icons, and text/image. Creating a structure that evokes an indefinite form, which can be interpreted as a primitive totem, an open book, or a ceremonial artifact, this piece generates a body that defies conventional categories. Its formal ambiguity invites the viewer to explore multiple levels of meaning, situating itself at the intersection of the ancestral and the contemporary, the tangible and the symbolic.
Following the closing of Raúl Díaz Reyes' exhibition, the Brazilian city will host the opening of Lotty Rosenfeld's exhibition, which will open on August 30. Later, on September 18, Barcelona will welcome Marcelo Brodsky with his project Traces of Violence , thus consolidating an artistic program of great international relevance.
Passeio do Príncipe (volta), 2025.
