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Pablo Álvarez

Saddy rainbow | Pablo Álvarez

2.683
Measurements
70 x 130 cm
Discipline
Pintura
Styles
figurativo |
Neofiguración
Supports
Lienzo
Techniques
Acrílico
Year
2024
Unique work
Saddy Rainbow belongs to the Virtual Distraction series, a project in which I construct landscapes to then inhabit them with symbolic elements that dialogue between the digital and the pictorial. In this work, the rainbow acts as the central axis, crossed by a smiling face whose shadow reveals a crying face, a metaphor for emotional ambivalence and the duality of the image. Other symbols appear to expand the meaning of the landscape: a metallic star that alludes to electronic music, a house as a nod to architecture, and a flower whose bud is a swirl, evoking the pictorial doodle as a recurring gesture in contemporary painting. The piece proposes a hybrid scenario where the iconic, the ironic, and the spiritual coexist, questioning the relationship between landscape, symbol, and visual language in the context of digital culture.

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Pablo Álvarez

After studying Fine Arts and Interior Design at Antonio de Nebrija University, where he graduated in 2018, he continued his education with a Master's in Research in Art and Creation (2024), consolidating a career that combines artistic practice and theoretical reflection. Since the beginning of his career, he has sought experiences that broaden his perspective, participating in international projects such as ¿Cómo enseñar y hacer fotografía? (How to teach and make photography?) in Piura, Peru (2020) and a documentary photography program in rural areas with Erasmus+ in Dilijan, Armenia (2019). These experiences marked a line of work attentive to social issues and modes of representation in diverse contexts. His work has been presented in various solo and group exhibitions in Spain, and has received recognition from institutions and competitions. In 2024, he exhibited his work at Galería My Name’s Lolita (Madrid), and in previous years participated in shows such as the Pozuelo de Alarcón Painting Competition (where he won third prize in 2023), the Moncloa Cultural Center (Madrid, 2022), and the LXXVII Centelles Painting Competition (Barcelona, 2019). In Logroño, he was awarded third prize in the XXXIV Young Art Showcase La Rioja (2018), and in Segovia, he was part of a group exhibition and an artistic residency at AP Gallery (2017). His artistic practice is characterized by an interest in the intersection of image, memory, and territory, exploring through painting and photography ways of inhabiting, narrating, and reinterpreting contemporary experience. With a career that spans from international projects to national competition awards, he continues to develop work that dialogues between aesthetic research and the cultural transformations of our time.

Financial information

Signature value

18.86 ¢/cm2

Accum. revaluation

84.27 %

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