Shiras Gallery inaugurates a new exhibition next Thursday 28 from May to 19:00 hours, titled “Symphonic Paintings”, by the artist Luis Fernández (Oviedo, 1967). This sample, It is carried out in collaboration with the critic Juan Bautista Peiró who dedicates a text to the artist's latest project..
The exhibition is based on the relationship between painting and music, understanding both disciplines as languages built from variations of rhythm, intensity, harmony and tension. Just as a musical composition constantly evolves through changes in tempo, dynamics or tonal variations, Luis Fernández's works explore how the image can be transformed through fragments, contrasts and visual routes that modify the viewer's experience.
This comparison is evident in the artist's works, where he starts from paintings from the history of art to select and delimit scenes or fragments that he reinterprets. Observed in isolation, These areas can even approach abstraction.; however, when integrated into the whole, reveal a recognizable image in which the figuration remains. Thus, the artist constructs a complex and changing visual experience, where each fragment contributes its own rhythm and intensity to the total composition.
This way, the artist manages to invite the viewer to read the images more slowly, covering the entire pictorial space. His works invite you to stop, to visually move and explore each fragment as if it were a sequence within a musical composition. It is precisely in this journey where he introduces the notion of time in painting.: the work is no longer perceived at a single glance, but through a progressive experience that develops as the gaze advances.
So, Fernández's works modify their expressiveness depending on the areas that the viewer observes. Some areas convey serenity and balance, while others generate tension, energy or restlessness. Each fragment has its own “musicality”, an internal rhythm that dialogues with the rest of the composition and contributes to building a dynamic visual experience, in constant transformation.
This is how Juan Bautista Peiró defines the exhibition: «Luis Fernández thus builds a personal planetarium where the truth comes to light (Beauty and truth, binomial so loved by the English poet John Keats) through different paths. Paths that far from forking, they happily intersect in these unique landscapes, in these amazing portraits, full of references to the history of 20th century painting. XX».
Luis Fernández is an artist with a long career. He has had multiple individual exhibitions both nationally and internationally., in cities like Buenos Aires or North Carolina, and collective in various public and private spaces. His works are part of relevant collections in our country..
This is how the artistic director of Shiras Gallery defines the exhibition, Sara Joudi: «“Symphonic Paintings” proposes a tour where the artist Luis Fernández, in his latest project for Shiras Gallery, revisits icons from the history of art to dismantle their traditional readings and open new possibilities of interpretation. His pictorial language, crossed by the tension between abstraction, realism and informalism, generates dynamic surfaces in which the image continually transforms before the viewer's gaze. The exhibition thus proposes a visual and sensory experience where painting becomes a space of resonance., memory and contemporary rereading».
