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march 10, 2021 - Case Chiuse

Abrigo de Luz Alejandro Corujeira con una scintilla di Giorgio Griffa


Case Chiuse HQ presents Abrigo de Luz, the first Italian exhibition by #alejandrocorujeira who, in turn, invited #giorgiogriffa to join him. At the beginning of our dialogue with Corujeira, we asked which Italian artist he particularly admired. Without a moment's hesitation he told us with deep awareness of the work of #giorgiogriffa, who accepted the invitation to participate with a "spark": a canvas of 1970. 

Corujeira's abstraction is balanced and deeply pondered. The artist’s complex and delicate process engages with pure painting, drawing, literature, poetry, music, numbers, dreams, memory and science.
Combining pencil, graphite, acrylic, watercolour, the artist’s sinuous lines undulate and intersect over fields of colour forms and cellular silhouettes. Corujeira fills the canvas through layers of semi-transparent paint, giving geometric forms and colours a weightless nature. With these few elements, his work successfully captures a never-ending sense of rhythmic and palpitating movement, inviting the viewer to live an experience of absolute contemplation.

Madrid, 1 march st, 2021

ll the works, with the exception of the drawings, were made during 2020, according to the paradigms of a year that surprised everyone, changing our habits. In this state of carefulness towards life and health I had in mind a verse from Dante that accompanied me during the making of these paintings:

"Or chi sa da qual man la costa cala,
sì che possa salir chi va sanz’ala?" 1

Faced with the uncertainty in which we find ourselves, I asked myself who could be able to overcome and go beyond this moment? How could we enliven painting in these times? And in the same way, how could painting give life to the observer? In this works and through those questions, a vital energy has imposed itself with a new chromatic intensity. 

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