Colour Fields // Yago Hortal, Prudencio Irazabal, Robert Pan, Annemarie Terlage & Antony Micallef
OPENING
Sunday, July 17, 2022
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
COLOR FIELDS
Group Show //
Yago Hortal, Prudencio Irazabal, Robert Pan, Annemarie Terlage
special //
Antony Micalef
YAGO HORTAL
If there is one word that can best be used to introduce the work of Yago Hortal (1983, Spain), it is: colour. Born and raised in Barcelona, the artist uses paint to create bold canvas works where color seemingly comes to life at the touch of his brush. When you look at Hortal's artworks, you immediately notice the dominance of color: vibrant, pure, unlimited. The paint appears smeared, spread, and splattered when it comes into contact with the canvas. His oeuvre is constantly evolving, constantly testing the limits of the artist's control over his art. Hortal constantly questions the relationship between his intentions as an artist and the material with which he works.
PRUDENCIO IRAZABAL
Prudencio Irazabal (1954, Spain) is known for the distinct technique he uses to create his abstract paintings in acrylic, in which a large number of translucent layers are superimposed and finished with a polished mirror surface. The relationship between surface and depth is vital to understanding his abstract images. Colour, mediated by the light working through the wafer-thin layers, gives a unique perceptive experience. The merged translucent layers determine the incidence of light, but at the same time allow the viewer to see through to the white canvas that forms the basis of the work. Irazabal has exhibited worldwide and his work is in the collection of AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Fundación Helga de Alvear, and many unnamed.
ROBERT PAN
Although Robert Pan (1969, Italy) trained as a sculptor, he opts for the two-dimensional surface for his creations. However, his use of materials does not belong to the traditional painting profession. The support of his work is a metal grid and his 'painting material' is petroleum-based synthetic resin. With respect for these materials and patience for the drying process implicit in his working method, he superimposes dozens of monochrome liquid layers of resin one by one. Color after color, they cover the surface like lobed and shiny semi-transparent veils. Pan then sands open the layered surface in various places, creating an enigmatic drawing. The different colors shimmer through here in an idiosyncratic and seemingly independent process.
ANNEMARIE TERLAGE
Annemarie Terlage (1967, Netherlands) paints her memories with epoxy. She creates imaginary landscapes and architectural sets based on personal memories from her childhood. Terlage has lived in America for a long time and that theme can be found in her work. The works exude the atmosphere of a sun-drenched California of the 1970s and 1980s and arouse a desire of where you want to go; kind of dreamlike. Terlage's compositions are characterized by bold colors and lines. She experiments with a combination of epoxy and acrylic paint, using a color palette that ranges from subdued warm tones to almost hallucinatory 'glow in the dark' reminiscent of the neon lights of the Las Vegas Strip.
ANTONY MICALLEF
Antony Micallef (1975, Great Britain) is known for his visually charged figure paintings. In the recent series of works by Micallef that we show in the exhibition 'Colour Fields', the artist builds up a relief-like surface with heavy paint to depict a figurative mass against a muted background. Using an impasto technique pushes the material to its limits and clouds our reading of painting and sculpture. Antony Micallef is a British contemporary artist and painter who lives and works in London. His art is included in numerous collections around the world and has been part of group exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Academy, Tate Britain and ICA London, among others.
