Onda Lenta

Como antesala a la feria ARCO, la exposición Onda Lenta presenta las últimas obras de los artistas Elisa Pardo Puch, Karolina Dworska, Leopoldo Mata, Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez y Nada Bien (Ramón Duerto Orlando).
explorando ese estado hipnagógico en el que el sueño se vuelve más profundo y reparador, y la realidad se diluye en un universo de silencios y metáforas visuales.
Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez –
Con obras que transitan entre lo doméstico y lo imaginario, Lucía nos invita a adentrarnos en un íntimo universo donde el paisaje se transforma en un decorado sensible. Su revisión de procesos y simulacro de paisaje se funden en una interpretación de la naturaleza, tanto artificial como natural, evocando la lenta metamorfosis del sueño.
Leopoldo Mata – Pintura
A través de texturas que se desdibujan y relieves cargados de dinamismo, Leopoldo presenta un universo errático donde monstruos y cuevas emergen con la espontaneidad del graffiti. Su obra, marcada por la ambigüedad entre lo borroso y lo palpable, encarna la evolución gradual y casi imperceptible de la mente en el umbral del sueño.
Carlos García Alix – Pintura
En su óleo titulado “rubi”, Carlos nos sumerge en un escenario nocturno donde bares que sueñan se funden con la madrugada. Su paleta, que oscila entre el principio y el final, la orilla y el abismo, crea una atmósfera que dialoga con la idea de la “onda lenta”, revelando la transición sutil entre la vigilia y el ensueño.
Nada Bien (Ramón Duerto Orlando) – Pintura
Procedente del mundo del tatuaje, Nada Bien fusiona el imaginario infantil con el trazo del dibujo y el comic. Con capas de papel y una crudeza intencionada, su obra expresa una estética amateur que, lejos de la perfección, celebra la espontaneidad del dejarse llevar por el flujo onírico, tal como la onda lenta se despliega con naturalidad.
Elisa Pardo Puch – Dibujos
Mediante dibujos cargados de crudeza y fuerza expresiva, Elisa transita entre la inhibición y la desinhibición, donde lenguas gigantes y matices eróticos se convierten en símbolos de liberación. Su obra se abre paso en ese instante único en el que dejarse ir se convierte en un acto creativo, reflejando el ritmo pausado y profundo de la experiencia del sueño.
Karolina Dworska – Punto Digital
Inspirada en el universo enigmático del Bosco, Karolina conjuga en sus creaciones una mano que sostiene madroño y la imagen de un esqueleto, entrelazando mitología, textura y surrealismo. Su propuesta, marcada por elementos eróticos y monstruosos, invita a recorrer un sendero donde el sueño se dilata, en una danza lenta que desafía la linealidad del tiempo.
Cada uno de estos artistas, a través de sus obras, dialoga con el concepto de “Onda Lenta”, explorando el sutil tránsito entre la vigilia y el sueño, entre lo real y lo imaginado. Esta exposición supone, en definitiva, una presentación de los últimos avances de nuestros artistas representados.
Elisa Pardo Puch
Elisa Pardo Puch (1988, Madrid). After completing her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at the UCM at the CES Felipe II in Aranjuez in 2014, she obtained a Master's Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2017. Previously, in 2010, she completed her Higher Studies in Design at the Escuela de Arte no10 in Madrid, and in 2009, she was the beneficiary of an Erasmus scholarship at the École Duperré in Paris.

She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.

Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.
Nada Bien (Ramón Duerto Orlando)
Nada Bien is the artistic project of Ramón Duerto Orlando (Madrid, 1992), a graduate in audiovisual communication and currently a tattooist and artist. Nada Bien gives space to a series of creative concerns - "It's a concept that guides the practice. Something like a polysemic mantra, which helps to focus action and thought. To be able to move forward in experimentation and in the illusion of sharing experiences and ways of seeing".

His technique can be characterised as mixed: hectographic ink, paper on canvas, spray acrylic, graphite. Something very beautiful about his work is that he intervenes on the canvas on both sides; generating an agency on the back. The shapes painted on the back are intuited from the front, emphasising or hiding themselves depending on the light.
Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez
Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez (Madrid, 1992) es una arquitecta y artista multidisciplinar cuyo enfoque pone en diálogo la pintura, el paisaje y la interacción entre el espacio físico y las experiencias sensoriales. Su formación académica incluye un Doctorado en Arquitectura en la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2019 - actualidad) y una amplia formación complementaria en el ámbito de la comunicación arquitectónica, la pintura y la historia del arte.

A lo largo de su carrera ha participado en exposiciones individuales y colectivas destacadas, entre ellas la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia (2018) y el Festival de Fotografía de Coruña (2018), mostrando una amplia versatilidad en disciplinas artísticas como la fotografía, la pintura y la escenografía. Su obra explora temáticas que vinculan el espacio arquitectónico con la percepción humana.

Lucía ha sido reconocida con numerosos premios y becas, como el Primer Premio Certamen Jóvenes Creadores (2021) y la Beca Fundación Antonio Gala (2018-2019), además de recibir varias becas para la formación de profesorado universitario por el Ministerio de Universidades (2020-2024). Su obra ha sido publicada en revistas académicas y libros sobre arquitectura y arte contemporáneo.

Su práctica aborda lo cotidiano a través de una exploración íntima del color y el espacio con la serenidad de quien no pretende asumir la lógica visual, en ocasiones excesiva y ruidosa, de los tiempos modernos. Lucía Gutiérrez acoge en sus lienzos, de pincelada espesa y abocetada, la inmensidad de lo que se desliza por su mirada: una mirada que dignifica con la misma destreza la luz incidiendo sobre un paisaje como la frágil materialidad de un barquito de papel. La pintura funciona aquí como un eslabón sigiloso que sostiene el salto que hay entre la imagen real que las cosas ofrecen y la mirada que las recorre.
Leopoldo Mata
(Badajoz, 1994) After finishing his degree in Fine Arts in Cuenca, he spent several years in Paris developing himself as a tattoo artist. On his return to Spain he studied the master Landa (Annual Laboratory to Nurture Artistic Dispersion) in Espositivo, at which point he resumed his artistic practice as a painter until now.

"If there is a pattern that I feel comfortable with in my approach to my work, it is the juxtaposition of different visual languages as a consequence of abandoning ideas halfway through execution that are often overlapped with other ideas/systems, evoking dispersion and the non-apprehension of any truth. I am interested in creating from the noise and the continuous interruption that characterises our present by including it in the pictorial process; playing with concepts seriously for a while to demolish them later with a sensation generating a miscellany that speaks of my way of understanding the contemporary world".
Carlos García-Alix
In his particular artistic approach, he immerses reality in the gloom of the night, creating paintings that materialise in just 15 minutes. His works are annotations of the night, capturing the essence of entering or leaving this mysterious period. García-Alix succeeds in capturing specific moments and states, especially at dusk, turning the night into a tangible material. His approach is formal and traditional, rooted in obvious observation, emphasising the need to be quick in his expression, reflecting the transience of the night and visually capturing the sensation of a blue sky in darkness.
Karolina Dworska
Karolina Dworska (B. 1997, Rzeszów, Poland) is a Polish artist living and working in London, UK. She graduated from BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2020, followed by a year-long Fine Art Junior Fellowship at the University. In 2021 she was one of the artists selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in London, Madrid and Seoul, and featured in numerous international publications, including Sztuka i Dokumentacja and El País, as well as Time Out Magazine.

Karolina Dworska’s multidisciplinary practice explores dreams, mythologies and liminal fantasy spaces, situated between the unconscious and reality. Littered with surreal motifs and mysterious inhabitants, her dreamscapes examine the strangeness, abject horror as well as the euphoria of corporeal existence. Desire and longing are also at the core of her work.

She explores the connection between recurring dreams and mythological allegory, and how the seemingly private, internal dream space can be externalised to connect to contemporary narratives and anxieties. Deeply intertextual, her work interweaves folklore, science fiction and the everyday, reconfigured through the meditative lens of dreaming. Dworska utilises textile mediums, in particular rug-tufting, a technique in which she hand constructs pictorial rugs, as well as using machine knitting and elements of sculpture to devise her surreal vision.
05.03.25 – 09.03.25

ARCO 2025- Sección Opening

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ARCO Madrid 2025 - Stand 9OP05
5-9 de marzo, 2025
IFEMA Madrid, Pabellón 9

En la segunda participación de Pradiauto en la sección Opening reunimos a los artistas Nada Bien (Ramón Duerto Orlando - Madrid, 1992) y Elisa Pardo Puch (Madrid, 1988). La propuesta explora una serie de conceptos compartidos que entrelazan sus prácticas, creando un diálogo alrededor de lo imperfecto, lo erróneo y los límites del lenguaje.

Tanto Nada Bien como Elisa Pardo Puch están interesados en las fisuras del lenguaje verbal y en la dificultad de producir mensajes unívocos, planteando este espacio gris como terreno fértil desde donde crear realidades alternativas. Este diálogo con lo imperfecto se materializa en una constante conversación que ambos mantienen consigo mismos y con su cuerpo, entendiendo a este último no solo como medio, sino como lugar donde se producen estas contradicciones. Uno de los conceptos que vertebra esta propuesta es la idea de potencia (aquí empleada en el sentido propuesto por Giorgio Agamben). Según Agamben, la potencia no reside en la capacidad de realizar algo concreto, sino en la posibilidad de que algo pueda no suceder de una manera concreta. Es precisamente en este margen de posibilidad donde las prácticas de Nada Bien y Elisa Pardo Puch se cristalizan - siempre a punto de ser otra cosa.

En cuestión de técnica, ambos artistas entienden el dibujo como un medio principal. Las dos prácticas crecen alrededor de esta disciplina, que no se entiende simplemente como medio, sino como una forma de pensar sobre aquello que podría llegar a ser. Tanto para Nada Bien, cuya obra es inseparable de su práctica como tatuador, como para Pardo Puch, que concibe el dibujo como centro de cada proyecto artístico, esta técnica es un territorio de exploración inagotable, donde el proceso y la incertidumbre son tan importantes como el resultado final. A su través, ambos crean nuevos universos llenos de fábulas, perspectivas imposibles, fantasía y misterio, donde se pueden proponer nuevas realidades y donde el error es siempre una apertura hacia otro lugar.

Para más información sobre las obras escribe a contact@pradiauto.com
Nada Bien (Ramón Duerto Orlando)
Nada Bien is the artistic project of Ramón Duerto Orlando (Madrid, 1992), a graduate in audiovisual communication and currently a tattooist and artist. Nada Bien gives space to a series of creative concerns - "It's a concept that guides the practice. Something like a polysemic mantra, which helps to focus action and thought. To be able to move forward in experimentation and in the illusion of sharing experiences and ways of seeing".

His technique can be characterised as mixed: hectographic ink, paper on canvas, spray acrylic, graphite. Something very beautiful about his work is that he intervenes on the canvas on both sides; generating an agency on the back. The shapes painted on the back are intuited from the front, emphasising or hiding themselves depending on the light.
Elisa Pardo Puch
Elisa Pardo Puch (1988, Madrid). After completing her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at the UCM at the CES Felipe II in Aranjuez in 2014, she obtained a Master's Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2017. Previously, in 2010, she completed her Higher Studies in Design at the Escuela de Arte no10 in Madrid, and in 2009, she was the beneficiary of an Erasmus scholarship at the École Duperré in Paris.

She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.

Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.
06.02.25 – 20.02.25

VOZ SOMBRA

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Evangelina Julia y Fernanda Rachad
25.01.25 – 08.02.25

C – Factoría

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C-FACTORÍA: NEW SPACE FOR ARTISTIC RESIDENCES CIRAT x PRADIAUTO

🔅Call for applications and opening of the space: Saturday, January 25, 2025, 12:00-15:00
🔅Closing date for applications: February 8, 2025

C-Factoría
Calle Pedro Díez, 25, Carabanchel, Madrid

We are excited to inaugurate C-Factoría, a new space for artistic residencies designed by Vega Ortiz in the district of Carabanchel joining CIRAT's already consolidated initiatives -such as Mujer Rayo, Fonte Madrid and Cirat Los Invernaderos- , expanding the project to foster artistic creation and interdisciplinary exchange.

This program is aimed at visual artists looking for a workshop to produce in Madrid, offering an environment that promotes dialogue between disciplines and professional development. The program focuses on material, technical and processual research applied to disciplines such as painting, sculpture, installation or textile art. This project also marks the beginning of the collaboration between CIRAT and Pradiauto, consolidating a place dedicated to contemporary creation in the city.

Pradiauto will be in charge of the artistic direction and monitoring of the projects, ensuring a close curatorial accompaniment that enhances the development of the selected practices.


C-Factoría will try to promote opportunities to exhibit in Madrid and the connection with a network of active professionals in the cultural industry. The space is conceived as a laboratory, a dynamizer, but also as a base for a community where we can work together to think and channel critical, lucid and energetic visions about society through art.

✨On Saturday, January 25, 2025 we will present the complete bases of the call, the team behind the project and the space that will host this new program. In addition, we will enjoy a concert by La Historia.
19.12.24 – 23.01.25

13 parábolas

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Empezamos el 2025 con la exposición "13 Parábolas". Inaugurado en diciembre de 2024, el proyecto es una extensión natural del libro homónimo presentado por la editorial Müller 42 en el espacio. Al mostrar los collages originales que vertebran esta publicación, la muestra ofrece la oportunidad de acercarse de manera más directa a la producción artística de Sean Mackaoui, explorando su meticuloso proceso creativo y la profunda conexión entre imagen y narrativa.

"13 Parábolas" reúne los collages de Sean Mackaoui con los textos de Carlos Risco y Alex Butterworth. El proyecto celebra las posibilidades del arte analógico y su diálogo con la literatura.

Obras disponibles: https://showrooms.itgalleryapp.com/es_ES/36819132767606171cf048
Sean Mackaoui
El arte siempre es una búsqueda, un viaje y una aventura. Pero también un juego. Sean Mackaoui, mago del collage y artista de espíritu burlón, se sirve de sus clásicos recortes para componer nuevas ensoñaciones: escenas majestuosas, a veces fantasmales, a veces humorísticas, siempre inquietantes y siempre bellas.
28.11.24 – 13.12.24

Un animal, un árbol, una casa

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Pradiauto Art Office se alegra de inaugurar la exposición Un animal, un árbol, una casa de
Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez, primera muestra individual de la artista en Madrid. Presentaremos
una selección de pintura reciente en diferentes formatos.

Durante la inauguración tendrá lugar una conversación informal entre la artista y Alejandro Vergara Sharp (Jefe de Conser­vación de Pintura Flamenca y Escuelas del Norte hasta 1700 del Museo Nacional del Prado)

Los días 30 noviembre, 3 y 13 de diciembre se realizarán visitas comentadas a la exposición junto al equipo de Pradiauto y Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez. Escríbenos a contact@pradiauto.com
para apuntarte.


RETRATO DE PINTORA
Antonio Muñoz Molina

La pintura de Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez da cuenta del asombro de mirar el mundo con los ojos limpios, y con la memoria del arte del pasado. La inteligencia se entrega íntegra a la contemplación de lo visible. No hay nada que no merezca ser considerado. Un caballo o un oso de juguete merecen la misma atención que el mar rompiendo contra una orilla desierta o que la espesura fragante de verdes y oros de un jardín. Lo modesto de casi todos sus formatos acentúa una especie de aplicada vocación escolar. Todo ha de concentrarse en un espacio limitado, en el que sin embargo no hay lugar para la miniatura ni el detalle, aunque sí para la precisión de algunas formas esenciales, hojas, colinas, azul caliente de verano, el tronco de un árbol, la escalera de una piscina. No hay detalles porque el sentido de las formas y de los espacios depende en exclusiva del color. En ese radicalismo plástico, mostrado y ejercido con la mayor serenidad, Lucía Gutiérrez me recuerda a esos maestros de mediados del siglo XX que en pleno cisma entre figuración y abstracción eligieron simplemente ignorar que existiera esa disyuntiva: Milton Avery, por ejemplo, Joan Mitchell. La celebración de la materialidad del lienzo, de los pigmentos, de los gestos que los hacen posibles y quedan impresos como huellas del proceso mismo de pintar, no tiene por qué ser incompatible con el amor hacia las cosas tal como son, o tal como las ven nuestros ojos, o más bien nuestro cerebro, que es quien crea los colores y las formas a partir de puras descargas de fotones, en el laboratorio siempre a oscuras de la cavidad craneal, la cripta hermética de hueso. No hay visión que no sea abstracta. No hay imagen que no sea un trompe d’oeil, un trampantojo, en la bella versión castellana. ¿Estás viendo una montaña coronada de nieve o estás viendo un montón de trapos? Ese caballo, ese oso, ese pato, parecen de verdad y también parecen de juguete, y en ambos casos contienen un resumen de la figura real, el misterio del animal y el misterio de su representación, que nos siguen sobrecogiendo desde al menos hace 40.000, cuando alguien talló un colmillo de mamut para darle la forma de un ser humano con cabeza de león: quizás un chamán con una máscara, o una de esas criaturas entre animales y humanas que están en las fábulas antiguas.

No hay nada que no sea memorable, que no merezca la plena atención de la pintora: al aire libre, en el campo, en verano, cerca de la amplitud del mar o de las modestas dimensiones de una piscina doméstica; o dentro de la casa, en la quietud confortable, donde los ojos se contentan con lo que está al alcance de la mano, esos animales de madera, o más modestamente aún, ese barco de papel que alguien hizo para una niña, incurriendo también en una representación, en lo concreto y manual de una hoja que al cabo de varios dobleces se convierte inusitadamente en otra cosa, ese barco que a los ojos de la niña ha surgido de las manos, como una paloma del pañuelo de un mago, o como esas figuras que van apareciendo laboriosamente sobre el lienzo, sin desmesura, sin abandono, recién inventadas y a la vez ancladas en el pasado de la pintura, en Cézanne, en Morandi, en Piero della Francesca, en la niña, pintora futura, que dibujaba por primera vez en un cuaderno la silueta reconocible de un animal, un árbol, una casa.
Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez
Lucía Gutiérrez Vázquez (Madrid, 1992) es una arquitecta y artista multidisciplinar cuyo enfoque pone en diálogo la pintura, el paisaje y la interacción entre el espacio físico y las experiencias sensoriales. Su formación académica incluye un Doctorado en Arquitectura en la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2019 - actualidad) y una amplia formación complementaria en el ámbito de la comunicación arquitectónica, la pintura y la historia del arte.

A lo largo de su carrera ha participado en exposiciones individuales y colectivas destacadas, entre ellas la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia (2018) y el Festival de Fotografía de Coruña (2018), mostrando una amplia versatilidad en disciplinas artísticas como la fotografía, la pintura y la escenografía. Su obra explora temáticas que vinculan el espacio arquitectónico con la percepción humana.

Lucía ha sido reconocida con numerosos premios y becas, como el Primer Premio Certamen Jóvenes Creadores (2021) y la Beca Fundación Antonio Gala (2018-2019), además de recibir varias becas para la formación de profesorado universitario por el Ministerio de Universidades (2020-2024). Su obra ha sido publicada en revistas académicas y libros sobre arquitectura y arte contemporáneo.

Su práctica aborda lo cotidiano a través de una exploración íntima del color y el espacio con la serenidad de quien no pretende asumir la lógica visual, en ocasiones excesiva y ruidosa, de los tiempos modernos. Lucía Gutiérrez acoge en sus lienzos, de pincelada espesa y abocetada, la inmensidad de lo que se desliza por su mirada: una mirada que dignifica con la misma destreza la luz incidiendo sobre un paisaje como la frágil materialidad de un barquito de papel. La pintura funciona aquí como un eslabón sigiloso que sostiene el salto que hay entre la imagen real que las cosas ofrecen y la mirada que las recorre.
09.07.24 – 31.08.24

Mar del Norte

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Mar del Norte is Carlos García-Álix's first solo exhibition at the Centro de Arte Faro Cabo Mayor in Santander. Overlooking the sea, the exhibition presents a selection of oil paintings made in recent years (2021 - 2024). All of them are based on the memory of the same place, the Ise Fjord, Copenhagen. For years, García-Álix has lived with this fjord inside him; he has returned to it from the journey, from memory and from the paintbrush.

The shore is a boundary between two states. An edge between the known and the inexplicable. A border between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Almost all the work presented in this exhibition is born of a return to the shore, to this shore. In each painting García-Álix presents a modified image of this place, moulds it in a new light, bathes it in a different emotion. With each brushstroke he transforms this edge, captures and invents nuances and details. It seems that his painting is always arriving at the edge, seeking an encounter with the limit. But it is a limit that does not close but opens, a space of infinite potential.

In several of his books, the philosopher Didi-Huberman investigates how images and works of art can act as bearers of memory, how they are able to establish a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, between the remembered and the forgotten. For him, images are not simply static representations, but are imbued with a special temporality and vividness. In the case of Carlos García-Alix, the reiteration of this landscape is also an exercise in visual memory. By painting the same fjord over and over again, García-Alix not only shows us this North Sea, but explores, above all, how this place lives in his memory. Each painting can be seen as a variation, a new interpretation, and a new manifestation of his memories and emotions. An investigation of how a memory lives in and with his mind.

Somehow, painting has this ability to oscillate between memory and oblivion, it can act as a threshold, it can be crossed. Mar del Norte is the evocation of a memory, but also its transformation and constant reconfiguration. An excuse, a place that acquires new layers of meaning and emotion with each iteration, showing that memory is not linear; it is in constant transformation.

García-Alix returns a thousand times to that North Sea to explore, from there, this limit between the remembered and the forgotten. To return to search for the end, the many possible endings. This exhibition is also a tribute to return, a celebration of painting as a device for return and invention.
Carlos García-Alix
In his particular artistic approach, he immerses reality in the gloom of the night, creating paintings that materialise in just 15 minutes. His works are annotations of the night, capturing the essence of entering or leaving this mysterious period. García-Alix succeeds in capturing specific moments and states, especially at dusk, turning the night into a tangible material. His approach is formal and traditional, rooted in obvious observation, emphasising the need to be quick in his expression, reflecting the transience of the night and visually capturing the sensation of a blue sky in darkness.
10.05.24 – 15.06.24

Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas

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‘Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas’ is Elisa Pardo Puch's second solo project at Pradiauto. On this occasion the exhibition brings together a selection of work produced in 2024 and is the result of her stay at GlogauAIR, Berlin.

‘The ducts and the large and small spheres are repeated in more pieces, because repeating, insisting and going over are Elisa's usual ways of dealing with things and getting hold of them, linked to the thought that is at her fingertips. There is nothing, however, that is directly and clearly identified with known things, for, however much the organic is evoked, what is drawn cannot be ascribed to concrete artefacts. Everything is a kind of something: tubular sheaths, pipes, boas, intestines, tracheas, serpentiform objects, pipettes, stills.

Among the drawn forms that are more complicated to describe are a kind of cup, fragments of the large black leather spheres that have been divided with astonishing regularity and dissociated, grouped together in repetitive sequences of modules that on the one hand look like containers that hold and are crossed by the small spheres, and on the other like ideograms of movement, like chronophotographs from the 19th century.

On one occasion, Elisa spoke of the possibility of a vital outburst. It was in connection with an exhibition she entitled ‘La espera’ (The Waiting). This one, which brings together wandering with curiosity and wonder, is about opening up and revealing what is/was inside, in encapsulated worlds; it is an exhibition of ways of coming out. Everything comes from something and is about to be something else. What is still will not last a minute’.

Selina Blasco
Madrid, 07/05/2024
Elisa Pardo Puch
Elisa Pardo Puch (1988, Madrid). After completing her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at the UCM at the CES Felipe II in Aranjuez in 2014, she obtained a Master's Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2017. Previously, in 2010, she completed her Higher Studies in Design at the Escuela de Arte no10 in Madrid, and in 2009, she was the beneficiary of an Erasmus scholarship at the École Duperré in Paris.

She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.

Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.
06.03.24 – 10.03.24

Arco Opening 2024

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Pradiauto proposes a dual project with works by artists Esther Merinero and Karolina Dworska, both represented by the gallery. The stand will include new work as well as some produced between the years 2021 and 2022.

The project includes large textiles by Karolina Dworska, which continue to examine the strangeness, abject horror and euphoria of corporeal existence. Her work interweaves folklore, science fiction and the everyday, reconfigured through the meditative lens of dreaming. The internal, seemingly private dream space is externalized in his work to connect with contemporary narratives and anxieties. We propose a dialogue between these textile pieces with wall sculptures by Esther Merinero. Pigmented resin works based on an obsession with street puddles; places and images from which Merinero explores the speculative power of everyday situations and objects. In both practices, from the dream and from speculation, deep and latent desires are channeled, which materialize from fantasy, the unconscious or the irrational.

06.03 / 10.03 - Opening section at ARCOmadrid - Stand 9OP01.
Esther Merinero
(1994, Madrid). She studied her BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts and recently graduated from an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art with the support of Fundació “La Caixa”, awarding her a a fellowship for postgraduate studies. Her work has been included in international exhibitions at Dada Post (Berlin), Centre del Carme (Valencia), Space2B (Madrid), Charsoo Honar (Tehran) or Saartchi Gallery (London), amongst others. Now represented by Pradiauto (Madrid).

Esther has also given lectures and workshops internationally in institutions such as University of the Arts (London), University for the Creative Arts (Farnham) or in Espositivo Academy (Madrid), and has curated exhibitions such as Archipiélago at the former British Embassy in Madrid, or Baldea.
Karolina Dworska
Karolina Dworska (B. 1997, Rzeszów, Poland) is a Polish artist living and working in London, UK. She graduated from BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2020, followed by a year-long Fine Art Junior Fellowship at the University. In 2021 she was one of the artists selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in London, Madrid and Seoul, and featured in numerous international publications, including Sztuka i Dokumentacja and El País, as well as Time Out Magazine.

Karolina Dworska’s multidisciplinary practice explores dreams, mythologies and liminal fantasy spaces, situated between the unconscious and reality. Littered with surreal motifs and mysterious inhabitants, her dreamscapes examine the strangeness, abject horror as well as the euphoria of corporeal existence. Desire and longing are also at the core of her work.

She explores the connection between recurring dreams and mythological allegory, and how the seemingly private, internal dream space can be externalised to connect to contemporary narratives and anxieties. Deeply intertextual, her work interweaves folklore, science fiction and the everyday, reconfigured through the meditative lens of dreaming. Dworska utilises textile mediums, in particular rug-tufting, a technique in which she hand constructs pictorial rugs, as well as using machine knitting and elements of sculpture to devise her surreal vision.
02.03.24 – 20.04.24

Nocturno del agua

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"What do H2O, baptisms and the bottom of the sea have in common? What is water independently of us? Can we purify something so central to our existence from projections? In her performance, Anna Dot proposes, not an answer, but something more valuable: an attitude. Perhaps the best way to learn is to sharpen our ears, to adopt a curious, tender and humble posture.

Anna's practice is imbricated in age-old social practices, whose geographical and temporal scope stretches from ancient Greece to Celtiberian cultures. These practices have in common the personification of entities generally considered inanimate in our days, thus questioning our modern, instrumental and self-interested relationship with water and, by extension, with nature.

Anna's questions (or incantations) are tender, intimate, insightful. The kind of questions you ask someone you don't know, but for whom you have an immediate sense of familiarity. For each question, Anna pours liquid tin into a container of water, where it solidifies - an allusion to the exercise of tossing a coin into a fountain to make a wish. Thus, the tin serves as a canvas for the water to convey her expression, the articulation of her answers.

The resulting figures / statues are intricate, elegant and elaborate. What do their [shiny] nooks and crannies mean? And if they mean / given that they mean, what does the rest mean? - The whistling of the leaves as they cut through the air, the refractions of light in the window, or even the circumference of coffee on the table as the cup is lifted. - The result is not only a democratisation of expression, but an implosion, or explosion, of the concept, revealing the infinite capacity of the world to say, to mean."

Guillermo Izquierdo, "El arte de preguntar/Pregúntaselo al agua" 2024.
Anna Dot
(Vic, 1991) lives and works between Barcelona and Torelló. She is dedicated to artistic practice, through which she carries out various explorations of language. She has exhibited in different spaces in Barcelona and Tarragona, as well as in Mexico and Germany. She complements her artistic production with theoretical research at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages of the University of Vic. She also writes art criticism for A*Desk and Encuentros and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in Torelló and at La Farinera in Vic. She is co-founder of the collectives Murió de Frío and Supterranis (organisers of the Festival Plaga) and member of the visual arts commission of the Festival Festus, Torelló.