Pablo Álvarez

Messy sunset | Pablo Álvarez

3.585 €

Measurements

140 x 110 cm

Discipline

Pintura

Styles

Arte conceptual |

Neofiguración

Supports

Tela de algodón

Techniques

Óleo

Year

2022

Unique work

Messy Sunset belongs to the Virtual Distraction series and is a piece that takes color and image mixing to an almost excessive point. The landscape appears saturated, with many intersecting elements and tones, creating a sensation close to the psychedelic. In this work, I am interested in working from controlled disorder, where everything seems mixed but still has an internal structure. Color plays a primary role, more linked to emotion and experience than to a realistic representation of the sunset. A transparent tube appears in the sky, functioning as a nod to the doodle in abstract painting. It is a reference to that free and spontaneous gesture that has been widely used in contemporary art. In my case, I incorporate it into a figurative painting, but taken to a more refined and defined level, almost as if that gesture materialized. The work thus proposes a crossing between the abstract and the figurative, between the quick gesture and slow construction, maintaining the logic of Virtual Distraction: a landscape that does not seek to be faithful, but to activate an intense and fragmented visual experience.

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