Exhibitions
The expanded enigma of the gaze: Edu Gil Alsina in Néboa
The Néboa gallery is hosting Mico Blau until April 24th, the first solo exhibition in Galicia by Edu Gil Alsina (Barcelona, 2002). The exhibition is presented as a pictorial exploration that transcends the merely visual to occupy an unstable territory, where perception expands and meaning remains in constant flux.
Gil Alsina's work articulates an investigation into the relationship between movement and perception. His paintings are not conceived as closed images, but as open structures that operate in a state of continuous flux. In them, repetition, fragmentation, and variations in scale are not isolated formal resources, but mechanisms that alter the interpretation and shift meaning, generating a space of ambiguity that demands sustained attention from the viewer.
Far from offering certainties, these works present painting as a field of thought. The act of seeing is detached from immediate understanding, becoming instead an experience of waiting, listening, and openness. What happens within the canvas is in constant dialogue with what remains outside, expanding the boundaries of the image and questioning its autonomy.
In this context emerges the figure of the blue monkey , an element as central as it is elusive within the artist's universe. Its presence evokes an elastic, almost impossible form that seems to stretch through time and space, like a gesture suspended between its origin and its own arrival. More than a representation, the monkey is configured as a self-referential, strange, and self-sufficient entity, governed by its own logic that defies the conventional laws of perception.
This sense of strangeness is not concealed, but rather becomes the very core of the proposal. The blue monkey exists in its singularity, sustained by the act of being painted and, simultaneously, by its reiteration. In this insistent repetition, a fissure opens where the painting ceases to be a static object and transforms into process, into insistence, into possibility.
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