Pablo Álvarez

Jardín de luz fría | Pablo Álvarez

4.543 €

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Measurements

140 x 140 cm

Discipline

Pintura

Styles

Arte conceptual |

Neofiguración

Supports

Tela de algodón

Techniques

Óleo

Year

2025

Unique work

Jardín de luz fría (Garden of Cold Light) is a 140 x 140 cm painting that begins with a desert landscape influenced by Yves Tanguy. From this seemingly empty setting, the work reflects on the meta-image and how we construct and reproduce images today. In the center, an image copied from artificial intelligence appears, introduced as just another element within the landscape. Various symbolic plants grow around it: the money plant, the dandelion, and ribbons. These are plants I have in my own studio, and here they function as an extension of that space. I am interested in thinking of the canvas as a constructed garden, but also as a garden that grows on its own, in relation to Gilles Clément's idea of the “moving garden” or residual garden. The work also extends beyond the canvas. In this video, you can see an animation of the painting where I move through different scenes while an collaboratively produced electronic piece plays: https://youtu.be/wcgUAFFNOTc?si=PMAh9ziKIboNniYv The sound is translated within the painting through the spectrogram of a fragment of the song. I project this information onto the canvas and mark the sharper areas with small figures: a frog in the lower left and several butterflies in the center of the painting. With all of this, Jardín de luz fría proposes a painting that expands towards the experimental, collaboration, and research, while maintaining a composition close to the spirit of Flemish still life.

Price evolution

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 %

Price evolution