JENA THOMAS AND THE CAPTURE OF ATMOSPHERE
In my paintings, the world is turned into a place that is slightly more mysterious and evocative than a naturalistic landscape, as it is intended to celebrate the oddity within it.
Jena Thomas
LANDSCAPE, OMNISCAPE, AND CONTEMPORARY ART
“Strangeness is the condition of the landscape.”
Lyotard, 1988
Landscape is everywhere. It defines our particular idea of nature, but it is not nature in its simple definition. We can think of a landscape as “a social product, the result of a collective transformation of nature, and the cultural projection of a society in a given space.”
VINCENT SERBIN, THE DECISION TO PAINT
“It was a non-objective approach that naturally led me into the field of abstract painting. In the year 2005 I became a painter—strictly committed to a non-objective approach.”
Vincent Serbin
TO PAINT OR NOT TO PAINT, THAT IS THE QUESTION
t is not surprising that, in contemporary times, in the face of the great diversity of expressive modes or ways of making art, the presence of painting seems diminished. The tools available to generate artistic creation are innumerable, but the visual discourses that emerge will always attend to the human concerns that are brewing around and within that creation.
EUGENE AGYEI / THE MIGRANT CREATION
“My work encompasses the architectural, geographical, cultural, and social spaces encountered as a person of the diaspora.”
Eugene Agyei
Current migrations are reflected in the complexity of their displacements and their desires for insertion in the new territory of arrival or reception, in which they raise their particular concerns as active subjects of their individual and collective history.
ART AND AFROPOLITANISM
“No human being can exist in complete independence from a nation or a culture. Yet… while individuals might be geographically bound within a nation, while they might be located within a given culture, their imaginations are not; they can transcend boundaries”.
Megan Sickmueller: Understanding Afropolitanism
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KARI KOLA, ON HOW TO CREATE WITH LIGHT
“I have been interested in light for as long as I can remember. Light is everywhere and affects the world and our daily lives in many ways.”
Kari Kola
LIGHT ART
If there is anything contemporary Art has taught us, it’s that Art does not need to be restricted to paint and marble. It comes in many formats, materials, and media. […]
Our Territories
https://alvarezgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/banner-mov01.mp4 ARTISTS Jeff Robinson Ben Quesnel Eduardo Vargas – Rico Eugene Agyei Topocritique starts from the reality of human spaces. (…) It is an art of montage. Montage of information […]
Toon | Vincent Serbin
https://alvarezgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/animacion-serbinv3-07jul.mp4 ARTIST Vincent Serbin Serbin starts from the whim of the “toon” with which he develops, as the artist himself affirms, his exploration of hybrid, eclectic painting, in terms of […]