Exhibitions
When texture speaks: Lin Mo's painting as a sensory territory
Silence as the structural axis of a painting that invites contemplation and leisurely time at the Miguel Marcos Gallery.
At the beginning of 2026, the Barcelona art scene kicks off the year with a new exhibition proposal at the Miguel Marcos Gallery. Artist Lin Mo presents Matiz Silente , an exhibition that opens on January 20 and invites the public to enter a universe of subtleties, silences and visual nuances. Over the coming weeks, the exhibition will occupy the gallery space, consolidating it once again as an essential meeting point for contemporary art in the city of Barcelona.
Under the title Silent Shade , Lin Mo's proposal poses a subtle reflection on the way in which color and form are articulated within the pictorial space. Far from being established as dominant elements, these components relate to each other with a desire for balance, where each minimal variation contributes to a profound and measured construction of the composition. The shade, more than a visual accent, acts as an almost imperceptible displacement that gives the work density and breathing.
Untitled, 2023.
Lin Mo (Harbin, China, 1962) is a contemporary artist whose career has been marked by the constant dialogue between East and West. Trained in Fine Arts at the prestigious Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1984, his career has been built on travel, cultural exchange and a deeply introspective artistic research. In the early 1990s, Lin Mo extended his training at the University of Barcelona, a city with which he maintains a close and continuous bond, alternating it with stays in Beijing and Paris.
His pictorial work, essentially abstract in nature, draws both from the Chinese aesthetic tradition —especially calligraphy, landscape and Taoist thought— and from the influences of Western abstraction. The result is a sober and meditative visual language, where gesture, silence and nuance take on a central role. His canvases suggest interior spaces and mental landscapes, closer to contemplative experience than to literal representation.
Untitled, 2020.
This exhibition approach at the Miguel Marcos Gallery connects with the Chinese poetic and philosophical tradition, in which the notion of emptiness is not understood as an absence, but as an active and necessary element. In Lin Mo's work, the dialogue between what is visible and what remains in suspense generates a delicate tension, where the stillness is slightly altered by details that introduce a sense of order, continuity and harmony.
His paintings invite us to slow down our gaze and escape the accelerated rhythm of everyday life. In front of these surfaces, time seems to dilate, creating a space of visual silence that favors contemplation. The concept of silente thus manifests itself as a silent but structuring force, a subtle presence that articulates color, form and texture and that invites the viewer to discover the richness of the nuances from an intimate and attentive experience.
