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