Where Feria street ends or begins, Espacio Mondo awaits, a multipurpose project that combines art, design and architecture and that hosts, until November 2, the first exhibition of the Madrid artist Trazas in Seville.
Divided into five sections, the exhibition goes through the artist’s history, from his first commissions to more mature pieces that delve into loss, memory or forgiveness.
And it does so through a minimalist and conceptual language that in a few sketches recreates everyday life and is an ode to life.
Traces of life, an emotional map
Color, texture and geometric shapes contain emotions and memories capable of appealing to the viewer. This may be his personal seal or his greatest talent, that of capturing Traces of Life with a few gestures.
The tour begins with a selection of pieces that introduce Almandoz’s visual universe and at the same time anticipate the search for that language that characterizes him. And so, works that deal with work, absence, vulnerability, passions, vitality and family follow one after the other.
The exhibition closes with Protagonists, dedicated to his most significant ties that pay tribute to the silent guide and complicity that sustain and accompany him on the road of life.
The monigots of Trazas, her characteristic characters, narrate and inhabit the different stories; geometric shapes serve as symbolic scenarios and color guides us through emotionality.
Carlos Almandoz premieres in Seville
Traces of life, in short, feels like an emotional map in which it is easy to recognize oneself. The exhibition “invites visitors to look at what remains when everything seems to have passed.”
The choice of Seville is not accidental. The artist is inclined to the identity of Seville, which he recognizes as a place where “time seems to overlap with the eternal.”
And for the occasion, Espacio Mondo is transformed to receive these evocative, close and fresh pieces with techniques such as rotring, acuerda and acrylic.
With his first exhibition in Seville, Trazas de vida, Almandoz consolidates his place as one of the most sensitive emerging voices of the Spanish art scene. His works, by the way, can be purchased at prices ranging from €1,000 to €3,000.