Abraham Lacalle

Lacalle’s raw landscapes are unconventional. His pieces do not put the focus on beauty, although it exists, or an idealized vision of it. The undergrowth, the mud in rivers and roads, the broken or dry trees and neglected waste elements play a preponderant role in his works. Through his paintings, we are involved in what Lacalle calls a “kinetic expressionism”, an uninterrupted bombardment of images that does not allow anything to settle, thus generating a certain discontinuity in memory. At the same time, this endows us with a vertiginous freedom, a risky acceleration, translated into possibilities of experimentation, exaggeration and also self-destruction. The artist states: “As a landscapist, I tackle the themes that concern me or interest me in a tangential manner. It is a whole journey that only touches the mass of the content in one single point. All the work has been elaborated for this imperceptible moment of contact.”

Abraham Lacalle is one of the most outstanding artists on the national scene, with an extensive career. Since his first major solo exhibition Abraham Lacalle, Un lugar donde nunca sucede nada at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2005, he has exhibited in the most prominent cultural institutions and galleries, such as Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; Marlborough gallery, Barcelona, Madrid and New York; Fundación Canaria para el Desarrollo de la Pintura, Las Palmas; Nova Invaliden Galerie, Berlin; CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; CAC Málaga and Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California. His work also forms part of prominent collections such as those of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville), Es Baluard. Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo (Palma de Mallorca), the Coca-Cola Foundation (Madrid), the Santander Central Hispano Foundation (Madrid) and the Consejo Superior de Deportes Collection.

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