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R E B E C A P L A N A
B e g i n t h e B e g u i n e
A L E J A N D R O G U I J A R R O
3 6 V i e w s f r o m W i t h i n
Begin the Beguine is Rebeca Plana's first exhibition as a represented artist in Álvaro Alcázar gallery. Ten new, large-format works and realized in the previous months exclusively for this show, are display representing a shared desire: to start again.
The 195 x 162 cm paintings reveal the fluid and fast gestural imprint that characterizes the artist, whose practice is highly direct and fresh. These works are made on linen, a completely new medium for the artist, who, despite considering it complex, admits that it “has a lot of presence” and confirms her interest and curiosity in the use of different materials.
Her practice highlights the diversity of colors and their importance in transmitting numerous sensations. They work as a reflection of the inputs that the artist receives on a daily basis. She reuses, almost as a let motiv, the color green for example, is a color which makes her feel comfortable and consideres it as a reflection o a “wonderful magic”.She also uses the fluorescent orange that, according to her, puts in a latent way and provides that light which is much needed today in contrast to other more stormy colors.
Rebeca Plana should be addressed as an in-formalist artist and her paintings are a reflection of her passionate and rapturous character. She considers that her own essence is painting, therefore she paints because she has to paint and she can do it from the needle but it always has to be in calm conditions: “I like to say that I paint from the stomach and not from the heart , because the anger comes out of your guts, even if you are learning to control it”.
In this period of wide uncertainty, each one focuses on their ability and Rebeca Plana knows how to paint and express her feelings. She starts again.
R E B E C A P L A N A B e g i n t h e B e g u i n e
The free translation of Begin the beguine would be something like a star over or even freer "more of the same" which in "vegabajero" would be like “as I know you like the rice pudding, you can fin under your door a brick”
Martí Domínguez
Dream for a new project
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
Wanda Koop
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
Exciting to see
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
In color plus
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
Orange the new black
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
Soft and love
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
Zas
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
The green of grass
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
I will ask
2020 Mixed media on linen
195 x 162 cm.
Sin título
2019 Mixed media on paper
100 x 81 cm.
Sin título
2019 Mixed media on paper
120 x 90 cm.
Sin título
2019 Mixed media on paper
120 x 90 cm.
Sin título
2019 Mixed media on paper
100 x 81 cm.
Sin título
2019 Mixed media on paper
100 x 81 cm.
Sin título
2019 Mixed media on paper
100 x 81 cm.
Short biography of the artist:
Rebeca Plana Albalat de la Ribera (Valencia, Spain)
She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia in 2000. She obtained an Honors Degree in final projects specialized in painting. She completed her training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon and at the College of Spain in Paris. Rebeca Plana's work has a highly abstract character, sometimes calligraphic, which recives elements of structured composition with a wild and improvisational atmosphere. Using everyday elements as canvases-objects and taking them towards the historical patriarchy of abstract expressionism.
Her work raises a modern, humanistic, purposely handcrafted, rough world, a work that lives on the cusp of an ephemeral and yet well-designed to an unexpected level, leading to extend it to find a new and unknown use and create a rough and extremely colour-traced work.
Since she finished her studies she has participated in artistic residencies, received awards and scholarships such as Habitat Artistic (Castellón City Council - EACC), the Piramidon residency grant (Barcelona), the O Barco de Valdeorras Foundation grant (Orense) , the residency scholarship of the Picasso Museum (Malaga), that of the Rodríguez Acosta Foundation and awards such as the Senyera of painting in Valencia, the Mercantile Athenaeum in Valencia, or the mention of Honor in the BMW award.
Rebeca Plana's work has also been shown in solo exhibitions in museums and galleries such as the Sala Gallera (Valencia), the Fernando Latorre Gallery (Madrid) or the Punto Gallery (Valencia), Colegio de España in Paris. She has participated in various group exhibitions in spaces such as the IberCaja Zaragoza, Casa de Vacas Madrid, or the Fundación Antonio Pérez de Cuenca. She also actively participates in fairs together with the galleries that represent her at Contemporary Art Fairs such as JustMad (Madrid), ARCO (Madrid) and Ghent Artfair (Belgium).
A L E J A N D R O G U I J A R R O 3 6 V i e w s f r o m W i t h i n
The photographer Alejandro Guijarro, for his exhibition in Álvaro Alcázar gallery, displays 36 images where photography is shown at its intersection with other media such as painting or print. His creative process reveals a technique closely related to surrealist painting: decalcomania.
This technique, so widely used by artists such as Óscar Domínguez or Max Ernst, among others, is known as one of the so-called mechanical or automatic painting processes. Using a now obsolete type of instant film and its chemicals process such as pigments, Alejandro Guijarro brings this technique to the field of photography, blurring the line between the real and the fictitious, between the tangible and the imagined: “this work establishes a fictitious space. From my study, I document the world with my eyes closed”.
The artist breaks the limits of the photographic image and creates a fragmented relationship between the object and its representation. Thus reality and his visual experience are further questioned. In this way, the artist manages to create a series of landscapes that honor Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mount Fuji. He considers it an interior journey through landscapes that have a geographical reference and invites us as spectators to create our own journey.
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Short biography of the artist:
Alejandro Guijarro (1979) is a visual artist who lives between Madrid and London. He studied at the Royal College of Art (London), where he graduated with a Master in Photography. His work investigates spatial relationships within photographic representation and its intersection with painting and drawing.
Guijarro has shown his work in Europe, US, and Asia. Recent exhibitions include Remnants, Galerie Huit (Hong Kong 2018), Lead, Tristan Hoare (London 2018), Insights: New Approaches to Photography since 2000. PHOTOFAIRS (San Francisco 2017), Momentum, Galería Marlborough (Madrid 2015), Festival Images ( Vevey 2014), New Order: British Art Today, Saatchi Gallery (London 2014) Blackboard - Art from teaching / learning from art, Artipelag Konsthall, (Stockholm 2014), Photography 2.0, PhotoEspaña (Madrid 2014) His work has been nominated in competitions such as Prix Pictet (2015), Man Photography Prize (2009) or the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères (2011). His work has been published in magazines such as The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, Wall street Journal, Huffington Post, Artnet, ABC or El Mundo among others.
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