Natura: Recent Watercolors

Adrián Pujol

March September 21 to November 22, 2023

META Miami and Henrique Faria New York are pleased to present Natura

“ While allowing us to discover a different facet of Adrián Pujol’s work, this show also confirms that his place is among the masters of today’s Venezuelan art, as the selection on exhibit reveals a mastery of technical means is surpassed only by his ability to swathe us in his atmospheres, to make us participants in his world, and to time and again move us with nature’s beauty of and art’s power of metamorphosis. ”

Federica Palomero

META Miami and Henrique Faría Fine Art are pleased to present NATURA: RECENT WATERCOLORS, Adrián Pujol's first solo exhibition in Miami. The exhibition brings together a set of watercolors on paper and canvas from his latest artistic production, made on the island of Mallorca.

 

Pujol’s work in visual arts spans more than five decades; he is a Spanish and naturalized Venezuelan citizen born in the City of Palma De Mallorca, Spain. Although Adrián Pujol's extensive career accredits him as an unavoidable reference for contemporary landscape painting in Venezuela, on this occasion, says Ruth Auerbach, "it confronts us with an unprecedented body of work that seems to inhabit the antipodes." his critical thinking."  NATURA: RECENT WATERCOLORS results from a change process; his work is reoriented towards abstract expressiveness. "However, - Auerbach notes - the apparent abandonment of representation and all figurative vestige should not be interpreted as a hasty refusal, since these achromatic fabrics - black and gray - reveal an analytical argument in which another idea of ​​"landscape" underlies... It implies a "revolution," a break from the reasoned exploration of the notion of space, structural layout, and formal development."

 

“La obra más reciente de Adrián Pujol -referente ineludible de la pintura contemporánea del paisaje en Venezuela- se reorienta y pareciera abrazar el enunciado del paradigma abstracto. El aparente abandono a la representatividad y a todo vestigio figurativo devela un argumento analítico en el que subyace una otra idea de “paisaje”. Este nuevo conjunto de acuarelas se percibe como el resultado de un proceso de cambio y transformación prolongado, fundamentado en la apremiante exigencia por impulsar alternativas al desarrollo de su práctica; implica una ruptura a partir de la exploración razonada de la noción de espacio, la disposición estructural y el desarrollo formal. Y, si bien el entorno natural desaparece como objeto de representación, se consolida el sentido amplio de su esencia. Las pinceladas y transparencias se van espaciando hasta alcanzar la atomización de la imagen territorial. La propuesta de Pujol trasciende los anacronismos y las contradicciones desaparecen; todo es figura, todo es abstracción, todo es paisaje.”

Ruth Auerbach

Adrián Pujol, born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1948. Since 1974, he has lived and worked in Venezuela. He was born in Palma de Mallorca. He studies at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades and at “Artestudio” in Palma de Mallorca. He studies at San Jorge School of Fine Arts and Barcelona's Cádiz School of Fine Arts. He is an assistant to the painter Joaquín Torrents Lladó. Graduated from CEGRA (graphic teaching center of the National Council of Culture). Co-founder of Taller Huella. Member of TAGA (Workshop of Associated Graphic Artists). He has painted landscapes in situ in New York, the Dominican Republic, Venice, Boston, Costa Rica, Florida, Mexico, Provence, The Hamptons, New Mexico, Istanbul and Venezuela. It began its exhibition activity in 1975

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