“The secret garden” is the new collection presented by Fabio Hurtado at the Sala Rusiñol
In this occasion he presents the collection “The Secret Garden”, an imaginary world full of sensuality, a dream world where nature and humanity embrace in utopian communion while giving space to multiculturalism, where ancestral roots and contemporaneity merge in an intercultural context that transcends borders.
The presentation of the exhibition will be at 7 p.m. The critical commentary will be provided by the art historian and critic Imma Pueyo, who, as she has written in the exhibition catalogue:
Fabio Hurtado exhibits again in the Sala Rusiñol a group of paintings in which he integrates works from the series The secret garden with others that are part of the latest works based on the idea of interculturalism, understood by the artist as the interaction of cultures of ancestral roots and the signs that make up modernism, art déco, music, theater, cinema and the artistic avant-garde. The Secret Garden, the generic title of the exhibition, is therefore the bridge between the past and the present where transversal culturalism stands out, manifesting itself more intimately, with a sensitivity close to the spiritual and with a certain air of recovery of some approaches. aesthetics expressed in previous works.
The motif behind the exhibition is the human figure, a recurring theme and object of the painter’s creative experiences, depicted frontally, almost always adorned with a hat, imagined in a secret garden, a utopian dream place where nature and humanity merge. in a silent love In his current work, he represents men and women of color, in profile portraits, frozen in time, against an abstract background, with birds and flowers, significant objects that give the subject plastic depth and symbolic content. These profile images point us to Egyptian art, African art, archaic cultures and also show affinities in typology like the Renaissance painters Piero della Francesca or Pisanello among others.
Drawing is the main instrument to transfer your visual perceptions, your ideas and the fantastic imagined world. The line is precise, defines the entire figuration, combines geometric shapes with more gestural lines and tends to represent objects in a way that stimulates the imagination. In the plastic space, through drawing and constructive geometry, he achieves forceful aesthetic effects from formal associations as if they were sequences of musical or poetic rhythms. Fabio Hurtado is a great colorist and his technique is exceptional in modeling spherical shapes and simplified volumes, often giving them a sculptural appearance. The color has a special treatment that characterizes the artist’s style: it is worked with layers of paint on a textured background and stands out for its power and luminosity.
Each painting involves a long execution time as it requires both a conceptual and procedural preparation process. But for Fabio Hurtado painting is part of his life. It is not an evasion. Through the magnificent images we can take a journey through some movements and stylistic trends in the History of Art, evoking Renaissance profiles, the immobility of ancient Egyptian art, Cubist geometries, the elegance of Art Deco, the chromatic stripes of Paul Klee. or African art. The painter refers to an intercultural context beyond borders and would like to blend everything in harmony. His works of art are created with a contemporary spirit uniting the human being and nature with the hope of achieving an ideal planet”.
The exhibition will remain open until 10th January 2023. Here you can see some of the works from this collection:
You will find the whole exhibition here
