Jaume Barrera | Barcelona, Spain
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Series 6. Landscape no. 51, 1988
mixed media on canvas, 160x234cmThe four paintings by Jaume Barrera in the museum’s collection are part of an extensive series created in the 1980's, dryly entitled Landscape . The series incorporates over fifty assembled paintings and can therefore be considered as a highlight of the artist’s oeuvre.
Landscape paintings are exceedingly rare in the second half of the 20th and early part of the 21st century. Barrera's series presents an entirely new take on the genre. The artworks are made up of assemblies of differing sized canvases that are each carefully designed and fitted together, displaying sculptural qualities. Monochrome panels contrast impasto coloured ones, having the side-effect that some of these panels have not fully dried yet; adding an accidental condition to the works. Fiery reds are coolly off set against greens and deep blues. The top rims of the artworks are always undulated; recalling movement and the soft silhouettes of the Catalan Pyrenees.
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Series 6. Landscape no. 54, 1988
mixed media on canvas, 152x266cmThe four paintings by Jaume Barrera in the museum’s collection are part of an extensive series created in the 1980's, dryly entitled Landscape . The series incorporates over fifty assembled paintings and can therefore be considered as a highlight of the artist’s oeuvre.
Landscape paintings are exceedingly rare in the second half of the 20th and early part of the 21st century. Barrera's series presents an entirely new take on the genre. The artworks are made up of assemblies of differing sized canvases that are each carefully designed and fitted together, displaying sculptural qualities. Monochrome panels contrast impasto coloured ones, having the side-effect that some of these panels have not fully dried yet; adding an accidental condition to the works. Fiery reds are coolly off set against greens and deep blues. The top rims of the artworks are always undulated; recalling movement and the soft silhouettes of the Catalan Pyrenees.