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Info
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Artist
Pere Llobera
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Opening
28.03.2009, 19.00 h.
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Exhibition
28.03.2009 - 23.05.2009
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Thanks to:
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Embajada de España, Berlín

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Exhibition programme (.pdf)
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Maribel López Gallery is pleased to present Pere Llobera's first solo exhibition in Berlin. A painter trained in the Fine Arts Faculty of the Universitat de Barcelona and in the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, his works navigate a personal universe where autobiography and pictorial practice melt into one another to compose highly symbolic and psychologically charged scenes.
For this exhibition he has researched adolescence, a period of convulsion he portrays with a certain melancholic distance punctuated with melodrama --and even hints of existential terror.

In the artist's own words:

"Faded in time, I'm in a party in a cottage (impossible to know in which town) where all I can remember is darkness, alcohol, a pool table and the feeling of taking part in a huge game of many possibilities. This period is not that important, actually it doesn't matter at all, but it illustrates very well this idea.

You could say that the youngsters are somehow born again to play such a game. Following the dangers and physical threats that lie ahead of us in our first years, there is a "second birth", in which such dangers and threats are now in the psychological domain.

One day we realise our parents have chosen a school for us, that we're their puppets and that, curiously, the most dangerous classmate is the one we feel most attracted by. It's the moment we awake from ourselves, when we are facing ten different paths to follow, at the end of which are ten more, no matter which one we pick, and each of those branches into ten more, and so on, in the huge tree of life.

I got fed up with seeing myself in my own paintings so, this time, I've also used memories of others, images of individuals, people close to me, who weren't aware of what they were exposed to when they let me stick my nose into their photo albums. Diving into these other people has been interesting".