Exhibitions
Teresa Vall Palou and the chromatic atmospheres to inhabit color
The artistic trajectory of Teresa Vall Palou (Lleida, 1951) has been built outside of rigid programs and any explicit stylistic constraints. However, her work engages with some of the most significant currents of 20th-century abstraction. Affinities with American Abstract Expressionism and European Informalism can be perceived in her canvases, understood not as direct affiliations, but as resonances that arise from freedom and personal experience.
The CEART Tomás y Valiente Art Center presents, from February 27 to May 3, the exhibition Chromatic Atmospheres , a selection of recent works that focuses precisely on the immersive and sensory dimension of color. The opening will feature the participation of critic Fernando Castro Flórez, and the exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Miguel Marcos Gallery and Bonart magazine.
TERESA VALL PALOU, Composició tela 591, 2021.
In Vall Palou's paintings, one can trace a certain affinity with Jackson Pollock's dripping technique, as well as with Mark Rothko's expansive conception of color fields. Some of his more recent works also evoke tenets of post-painterly abstraction, particularly the chromatic atmospheres developed by Morris Louis.
Beyond these affinities, the artist asserts an unmistakably unique voice. Her work combines gesture, mark, and graphic elements in a precise balance between impulse and control. Spontaneity does not preclude the conscious construction of pictorial space; on the contrary, it is integrated into a compositional architecture that intensifies the vibrancy of color. Each canvas thus becomes a field of energy and sensitivity, where chromatic passion articulates an immersive and profoundly contemporary visual experience.
Teresa Vall Palou 's imagery is profoundly aquatic, in the sense that Gaston Bachelard gave it: a fluid territory where matter transforms into reverie and color acquires the cadence of breath. Her canvases evoke both the ceaseless impulse of ocean waves and the concentric expansion of a calm pond, that trembling mirror in which the fragility of our existence seems to be reflected.
TERESA VALL PALOU, Composició tela 606, 2022.
There is—if you'll pardon the synesthesia—a secret music in these forms that fold and unfold like slow tides. The surfaces vibrate with a restrained harmony, but also with a subterranean pulse: the obstinate rhythm of life that moves forward, that grows restless, and that, despite everything, seeks serenity. Each stroke is an oscillation between impulse and silence; each glaze, a suspended breath.
His works reveal themselves as introspective landscapes, geographies of the spirit where color constructs habitable atmospheres. They are not spaces to be observed from a distance, but to be traversed. Within them, light clouds form, chromatic emanations that float between the airy and the aquatic, as if sky and water were converging into a single, sensitive substance.
In this fusion of elements, Teresa Vall Palou finds in painting a vital space: a place to poetically inhabit the world, where matter is transformed into experience and gesture into intimate revelation.
