Exhibitions
Aryz bursts into the Granollers Museum with Brindis, a claim for pictorial freedom
The artist presents 45 unpublished works in an exhibition that combines rebellion, experimentation and a vibrant dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity.
Aryz exhibits for the first time at the Granollers Museum and does so with Brindis , the new temporary exhibition of the museum in the capital of the Vallès Oriental that can be seen until June 28, 2026. The artist from Cardedeu closes Preludio at the Senda Gallery and opens Brindis in Granollers, a tour of 45 works and is the artist's response to a group of gallery owners who refused to show one of his works simply because the frame clashed with its color. At the same time, it is also his gesture of rebellion: a way of claiming that art is, above all, living expression, not an object subject to any chromatic or commercial dictate. With this exhibition, the artist defends creative freedom as an indomitable space, capable of overflowing any convention that wants to domesticate it.
Octavi Arrizabalaga, better known as Aryz, presents a montage built from a set of previously unpublished works —oils, lithographs and pieces on paper— with which he bursts into the museum room, leaving, for a moment, his monumental muralism that has marked the city of Granollers since 2014. In this new, more intimate register, the artist remains, however, faithful to his impulse to explore the limits of painting. Aryz challenges the stillness inherent in the medium and insists on capturing movement in it as if it were a single frozen heartbeat. His works thus open up as pictorial collages where classical and contemporary elements, fragments of sacredness and everyday scenes coexist and dialogue; a hybrid universe that demonstrates his interest in traditional printing techniques and in painting understood as an open, mute and always transforming territory.
Works created in the last two years and with Brindis , Aryz sets foot in the Granollers Museum for the first time, just after having closed Vestigio in Prague and Preludio in Barcelona. “Being here is a privilege. Granollers has been a key piece in my artistic learning. The river has accompanied me since my adolescence, when I would go there to see graffiti, and over time it became a real laboratory for experimentation”, explained the artist.
