GALERIA REUS


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Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.


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Represented
Alejandro Javaloyas
Callum Green
Daniel Roibal
Elen Braga
José Fiol
Karolina Albricht
Julià Panadés
Marian Garrido
Miquel Ponce




CollaboratorsAbel Jaramillo
Alexandra Hunts
Erika Trotzig
David Martín
Irati Inoriza
Tommy Lecot
Evgenia Duvnikova
Daniel Dominguez
Martin Paaskesen
Ricardo Cases






PERDRE EL CAP - SOLO SHOW

Adrià Mayordomo



Dates
 08/06/2023 – 11/09/2023

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Try to understand the generation born around 2000’s, as Adrià Mayordomo, who belongs to the Z gen, could be a hard work. This digital natives have a completely different relationship with their environment. Even though Adrià Mayordomo is a generational rara avis.
He decided to paint as a principal discipline for his first solo show at “The Vault” space (although without setting aside other techniques, as the sculpture). This is not newly, but indeed it is because he scapes from the trendy and actual styles, betting for his owns and getting away from the ephemeral trends. He started on the street, painting murals in the Manacor’s surroundings, the town where he was born and rise. He even painted a billboard as a bachelor’s class work. Afterwards, already studying in Barcelona, He started to use paper and canvas, even if He did not let aside his street facet. “Actually, I do not want to explain anything, I just want to play with the concept of losing your mind from the absurd. The plasticity of the artworks does not try to offer any sentimental lecture, and if it happens it is not on purpose. I prefer that every viewer has his own interpretation, totally personal. I even prefer that the piece simply does not evoke anything or that the spectator would not be able to understand it, than fit the artwork in a concrete concept”, explains Mayordomo about his project. It is easy to see that He is trying to trick us. His work explains more much than what He believes. There is some reason for his referents: Francis Bacon, Maria Prats, Miquel Barceló and Alex Foxton. Mayordomo is a painter without complex who, with a notebook in his hand (not tablets or smartphones) picks out everything that crosses his mind: notes, sketches, phrases and anything that thinks might inspire him. A garbage dump of ideas that make him lose his mind to later crush them, chew them and regurgitate them on a canvas. In his narrative, we can observe characters, with a certain pictoric deformation, with postures and perspectives that intentionally defy some stereotypes. Furthermore, if it is not enough, He literally cuts the charachters head/face and relocates them with a collage/decollage technique inside or outside the canvas. Sometimes, He even burns some parts of the artwork, giving them a material aspect and raising identity and hiding questions. These holes reminds, in certain ways, formally to artists such Lucio Fontana with his holey and ripped canvases, and conceptually to Magritte, who understand the holes as a door that allows to look beyond and observe the occult side of the reality. What does the artist want to show us? What is He hiding for? They are possible self portraits, handled from the distance, as an alter ego but self referential with not doubt, that allow us (more unconciousness than conciousness) to sail through his intimacy and brutally submerge us in it; denying his own identity and hiding through a construction of a subjectivity and its relation to the human body and Focault style. The distribution of the artworks creates a route that forces to visit the show in a concrete way, as a spacial puzzle, compelling to the spectator to watch and discover certain aspects of the pieces that otherwise could be not reveled .

-Tolo Cañellas, May 13th 2023