MIQUEL GELABERT: Geographies

December 2020 - january 2021 / New York

Early in his career, Miguel Gelabert took the courageous and almost clandestine choice of the theme of the landscape - so rare in contemporary art with its demanding sense of depth and the finesse shown in the gradation of the colors. 

However, it was only a starting point, a moment of experimentation with color and form applied to an obsessive and nostalgic theme: an ode to the maritime landscape of the town of Blanes, where Gelabert was raised. Later, there is the progressive appearance of geometric elements on the diaphanous horizons of the paintings.

This represents the need to confront the natural landscape in a personal, intrinsic way, which the painter found in geometry, linearity, and in meticulous order, rather than in the meandering forms typical of a romantic or surrealistic conception of landscape.

Gelabert has been able to find a harmonious relationship between natural landscape and artificial geometry. 

His constant, increasingly slow, poetic and intense work allows the viewer to enjoy a landscape, which he selects through quadrants and cubes, putting geometry at his service, which is used to reaffirm his own plastic criterion. Even in the works where the landscape is dominant he inserts small volumes adapted to the environment, which give both mystery and plastic maturity to the work.

~Albert Mercadé, Director Arranz-Bravo Foundation

Franklin Bowles Galleries have proudly presented the work of Miquel Gelabert to a growing international audience since 2012 in both San Francisco and New York and have hosted the artist’s first US solo (sold out) exhibition in 2018 in New York City. In addition, we have featured Miquel Gelabert at Art Silicon Valley (2015), Art Market San Francisco (2017) Seattle Art Fair (2018) and Art New York (2019). 

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