Xevi Sola Serra

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Xevi Sola Serra

 

Santa Coloma de Farners, Spain, 1969

"I paint quickly, more than ever, to regain freshness. It doesn’t always work. Often, I spoil pictures and start over and over again, searching for the gesture, like someone practising a new signature, and I draw a lot.

Now, the most important thing for me is the painting, the gesture, the colour; the form, in short. I am in the process of forgetting the strictly narrative part of the painting. This evolution takes time, and I consider this change a journey of no return. A journey I started when, a couple of exhibitions ago, I removed characters from my paintings, leaving only landscapes. Following the same idea, I recovered the characters, but now they no longer shout; they don’t even speak. Now, they are here for their forms to be observed. Little by little, I free myself from the need to explain, without giving up figuration because it is the instrument that keeps me sane. Still, I have to admit that abstraction has an increasingly hypnotic influence on me.

I have doubted a lot, but I think that this reset was necessary to recover the essence of painting—painting to enjoy the material and the gesture, and to transmit one’s enjoyment."

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Xevi Solà, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland (2024)
  • Common People, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2023)
  • To be, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2022)
  • Solo Show, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
  • MUTE, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2020)
  • Untitled, Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (2020)
  • The Most Beautiful City, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain (2019)
  • Solo Show, Galeria Montez, Frankfurt, Germany (2019)
  • Pan y Circo, Galeria Inox, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018)
  • Solo Show, Tokonoma Galerie, Paris, France (2017)
  • Jungles, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain (2017)
  • Dual Pathology, Yiri Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (2016)
  • Pintura sobre Pintura, Galeria Inox, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016)
  • Decameron, Yiri Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2015)
  • De Dentro, Galeria Inox, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2015)
  • Agadoisó, Galeria Inox, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013)
  • Bel-Air, Galeria Victor Saavedra, Barcelona, Spain (2010)
  • Exterior amb Freak, Espai zer01, Olot Art Museum, Olot, Spain (2009)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • New Portraits, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
  • La Terre est Bleue Comme une Orange, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2023)
  • Nuevos Paisajes, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2023)
  • New Landscapes, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2023)
  • Álbum de Familia, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
  • DelicArtessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain (since 2012)
  • Group Show, MANA, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA (2017)
  • Group Show, Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, Norway (2017)
  • Group Show, Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, Norway (2016)
  • Group Show, Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen, Denmark (2016)
  • Power Flower, Magic Beans Contemporary Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2016)
  • Grande y Felicísima Armada, Yiri Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (2014)

ART FAIRS

  • KIAF SEOUL, Alzueta Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2024)
  • UVNT ART FAIR, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2024)
  • ART CENTRAL, Alzueta Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2023)
  • MARFA INVITATIONAL, Voltz Clarke, Marfa, Texas, USA (2022)
  • INTERSECT ASPEN, Voltz Clarke, Aspen, USA (2022)
  • ART MIAMI, Alzueta Gallery, Miami, USA (2022)
  • ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2022)
  • UVNT ART FAIR, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2021)
  • ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2020)
  • AQUA ART, Alzueta Gallery, Miami, USA (2017)

AWARDS

  • Young Art Award, Young Art Taipei, Taipei Contemporary Art Fair (2014)
  • Selected for the Biennale d’Art of Girona (2010)
  • Project Wanted, exhibit at Centre Arts Santa Mònica de Barcelona (2007)
  • Selected for Jaurena Art Painting Competition (2000)

COLLECTIONS

  • Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation (ESKFF), New Jersey, USA
  • Leonel Kaz Collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • University of Barcelona Art Collection, Barcelona, Spain