8x5 al 2025
| Height | 120 cm |
|---|---|
| Width | 75 cm |
| Length/Depth | 3 cm |
8x5 emerges from a sustained tension between control and collapse. Within an apparently rigid format – eight rows by five columns – repetition is constantly disrupted by gestural marks that spill beyond the structure. This friction between the grid (Deleuze’s ‘striated space’) and affective expression (the ‘smooth space’) creates a surface where subjectivity is not represented but inscribed through materiality.
Each unit can be read as an event: not a fixed meaning, but a site of difference and relation. Through the germinal chaos, colour does not illustrate but instead emerges as a remnant of the struggle with the canvas. In this process, knowledge is suspended and replaced by an active form of unknowing, a persistent suspicion of what is already known.
Technique:
Oil on canvas, waxed pigment and acrylic on primed cotton canvas.
Year:
2025
Shipping:
The work will be shipped hand-stretched on a stretcher frame. This includes a certificate of authenticity and a signature on the reverse.
Gerard Almirall
STUDIES
2020–2025
Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, University of Barcelona (UB), Spain
2023–2024 Erasmus
+ Exchange, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Germany
EXHIBITIONS
2025:
October, “Sense Títol 25”. Group exhibition. University of Barcelona, Spain
November
, “Walls of Vision”, group exhibition. Dr Hans Riegel Foundation. Bonn, Germany.
2024:
September, “Skm Exhibition”. Leipzig
, April, “Eberhard-Dietzsch-Kunstfreunde e.V. Art Prize”. Gera, Germany.
May, “SolidArt”. Solidarity exhibition. Fabrik45. Bonn, Germany.
2022:
, June, “Brushstroke” solo exhibition. Gavà Town Hall. Barcelona, Spain.
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