Barcelona Gallery Weekend
06.09.2023
Cesc Abad - " There's a light that never goes out"
We begin Barcelona Gallery Weekend with Cesc Abad's proposal to visually introduce us to a reflection on the lost relationship between man and nature.
The story has never been linear, just as Cesc has decided with this new series to partially abandon the forest and human emotionality, to express this message now through more refined compositions and a great corporeality.
His relationship with art also went through a period of estrangement; after starting out in the world of visual art at the age of 15, he got a workshop under his father's supervision at the age of 21. Unfortunately, when the family business lost its head, Cesc took on the role of manager and decided to hide his weakness for art from others.
Despite this transmuting experience, Cesc never stopped experimenting with different materials and techniques in the so-called "Muro".
It is precisely in this clandestine space where he gives himself completely to art; finally, in 2016, he decides to sell the company and dedicate himself professionally to art.
This same process of rediscovering his instincts and leaving the programmed is translated into his series Humatics: a series where in dystopian spaces he opens the debate on how to autonomise even our humanity.
His figurations seek a much more symbolist aesthetic with the expressionist echo of Munch. In the portrait of nature we find that past by the Prado and the effect of the post-impressionists.
