NEW ART AT KALPA | Guillem Nadal | painting & installation

FEATURED ARTIST

“We can find no natural ruins; because neither animals nor forests nor oceans lay waste to themselves of their own accord.”

GUILLEM NADAL AT KALPA

Starting this new art season 2022, we welcome the work of internationally renown Spanish artist Guillem Nadal to our KALPA art gallery. Based in Mallorca, Nadal’s three dimensional paintings, drawings and captivating installations take their inspiration from the culture and breathtaking nature of the island itself, recalling its colours, contradictory character and natural elements. Exploring the duality of painting and sculpture, Nadal creates a sublime imagery of chromatic palettes, streams, layers and sediments, textured surfaces and reminiscences of organic forms.

Focusing mostly on large-scale artworks, his paintings are evocative of both raw material and the artist’s own creative process and gestures. At KALPA, we are proud to present a selection of his most recent paintings in mixed media on wood, featuring Nadal's characteristic monochromatism - mainly spanning from white, grey and to brown - as well as his bold streaks stretching out across the surface.

In art critic Iván De La Nuez’s words, “His work might best be described as temporal art more than contemporary art, because it does not explore nature as an inert phenomenon, contrary, by definition, to an art that is always in movement.” Each piece is the representation of a unique present moment in his life, when micro and macro, light and darkness, creative impetus and meditation merge together to find an unexpected visual equilibrium.

GUILLEM NADAL FEATURED ARTWORKS

A-084

"In a time marked by hectic activity, Nadal brings forward works of art that contradict this frenzy.” - Dieter Ronte

Mixed media on wood, 2020

190 h x 200 w cm
74 3/4 h x 78 3/4 w in

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19-04-17

“Nadal's works are a place of memory and poetry, where past and future times merge.“ - Pilar Ribal i Simó

Mixed media on wood, 2017

180 h x 130 w cm
70 3/4 h x 51 1/4 w in

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A-025

"Nadal's work tends to focus on that shift in which human beings, primitive nature's children, become contemporary nature's parents." - Iván de la Nuez

Mixed media on wood, 2020

85 h x 147 w cm
33 1/2 h x 57 3/4 w in

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A-104

"Nadal’s vision of art, his artistic inspiration is, in a way, more archaic, closer to the battle narrated by Hemingway between the old man and the sea.” - Dieter Ronte

Mixed media on wood, 2020

190 h x 170 w cm
74 3/4 h x 67 w in

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C-020

“Like that walker who finds answers that he does not seek, Nadal gradually builds up a solid body of art that pays tribute to human ingenuity and creative imagination." - Pilar Ribal i Simó

Mixed media on wood, 2022

130 h x 130 w cm
51 1/4 h x 51 1/4 w in

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A-085

"Nadal is also a fisherman and a craftsman, the man who measures himself against the stars and lights a fire in the middle of the night, filled with the heartbeat of the universe itself." - Pilar Ribal i Simó

Mixed media on wood, 2020

190 h x 200 w cm
74 3/4 h x 78 3/4 w in

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MORE SUPERB ARTWORKS AT KALPA

FACETED POPPY POD

Akiko Hirai

Akiko's skillful manipulation of ceramics ensures that every piece is unique and celebrates imperfection and chance. Focusing on the interaction between the piece and the viewers, language, thoughts, feelings and objects all come together in the everyday interactions of our lives.

42 h x 36 ⌀ cm
16 1/2 h x 14 1/2 ⌀ in

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METEORE CIII

Claire Fréchet

Claire has developed a very singular artistic language in ceramics, inspired by aesthetic’s links between geology, astronomy and botany. These spheres, made in earthware with volcanic sand, are characterised by an intense softness, also eroded and covered by fired calligraphic decoration.

15 h x 16 ø cm
5 ⅞ h x 6 ¼ ø in

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LO STESSO SEGNO #8

Angela Palmarelli

Angela’s ceramic work unravels nature's secret code, organised in an elegant, subtle and profound shape. Her research focuses on immediate expression in the creation of slabs on which to impress and superimpose traces, with the fascinating attempt to recall and fix, as on the page of a book, the original path of the earth's history.

45 h x 35 w x 6 d cm
17 3/4 h x 13 3/4 w x 2 3/8 d in

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TIMELESS II

Sabine Pagliarulo

Sabine re-interprets the universe with a poet’s eye, where imperfections and different shades of colour give life and intensity to her ceramic pieces. The new series in grogged stoneware and porcelain,"Timeless", is the result of the emotional journey that the artist undertakes in connecting her work in clay with the essential aesthetics to the final form.

26 h x 30 w x 33 d cm
10 1/4 h x 11 3/4 w x 13 d in

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ACQUA LUSTRALE 4

Marco Bellini

Marco's eclectic corpus of work encompasses ideas of melancholy, forlornness and solitude. The new series in European walnut, "Acqua Lustrali", features a more open shape than previous pieces, and a strong contrast between the purity of the white exterior and the charred-wood interior.

21 h x 34 ⌀ cm
8 1/4 h x 13 1/2 ⌀ in

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UNTITLED 36

Eleanor Herbosch

Eleanor’s work is characterised by expressing the potential of natural materials with the intent of enhancing their intrinsic qualities. As recalled by this new painting in acrilic, chinese ink and oil, she aims at creating an enhanced visual experience that’s a pure pleasure for the senses.

150 h x 100 w cm
59 h x 39 1/4 w in

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