We have inaugurated the Malvehy exhibition

“Urban Visions” is the title of the exhibition that was presented yesterday at the Sala Rusiñol.

The presentation act has been initiated by the director of the Sala. Ignasi Cabanas has highlighted that in 1998 he presented an exhibition of the artist in the gallery for the first time and that this exhibition that can now be visited in the Sala Rusiñol is number 7 of an individual nature.

He also recalled that the artist has been present at two important moments for the art gallery, such as the 25th anniversary exhibition and in the year 2000 when, at the turn of the millennium, “Painters” was published, an extensive volume that collects works of an outstanding number of artists. In the issue, Francesc Galí was one of those in charge of the critical comments, of which he wanted to read the one dedicated to the artist that now concerns us, and that is fully valid.

“To approach the plastic work with intellectual rigor may be one of the keys that help to understand and enjoy a painting, such as the one by Eduard Malvehy, which gives image to a reality -all of them are valid- surrounded by silence, poetry and almost mystery.

Urban themes, landscapes and seascapes are those that, together with still lifes, he usually represents within a singular structuring in which the composition, the plane and the volumes, take on a creative interpretation without figurative objectivity losing meaning as representation. Motifs that he develops through an orderly configuration within architectural limits -present through drawing and stain- that accept the coloration of light, an important basis of his representational work.

Transferring the reality of the model to the reality of his painting, which, in addition to being carried out -installing it- through a well-established drawing, he does it by adding a descriptive coloration free of semblance, the result of a palette toned within a scale of tones that grows and decreases naturally, without abruptness, in expression of the silence with which he accompanies that which can be contemplated as a dreamed reality.

A very personal composition is the one he puts into play in his works: verticality and the achievement of the sensation of volume are given formal appointment in his realization. Linearity and body of the forms that the light, also in a natural way, places consequently to the protagonism of its configuration. This is one of the ways that Eduard Malvehy uses to leave -without chromatic noises but solidly constructed- some unequivocal samples of the subjectivity and sensibility with which his painting is made”.