ÀMBIT Galeria d’Art
We are pleased to present, for the first time in the gallery, the drawings exhibition
MARIA BALCELLS
IN PROCESS
Opening:
June 4th at half past seven.
Until:
July 31rst, 2015.
María Balcells (Sabadell, Barcelona, 1966), has a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts from the
University of Barcelona. Since her first exhibition, her paintings had a limited palette and linear
strokes. Over time, she has been purifying her language and nowadays she expresses herself by
the drawing as a way to capture an introspective look. Maria Balcells has lived in Italy, Indonesia,
Greece and currently resides in the United States. These life experiences have influenced her
personal journey and consequently her own iconography.
Maria’s drawings mapped forms and make us think in organic matter, traces, wounds, fragments
of lives covered under the magnification of the microscope. Her traces, obsessively repeated,
seem out of time, without horizon, shaping a memory.
S/T, 2013
Graphite pencil on paper
36x44 cm.
Maria Balcells seeks for answers to natural structures and works around the idea of memory,
in a very broad sense. As a legacy of the past, as a present reality, as an inter-generational
link, as a personal memory, as a benchmark for our own circumstances, as scars, as neural
connections, as a sediment of old age.
S/T, 2013
Graphite pencil on paper
46x62 cm.
In the words of Ricard Mas: “The Maria’s scale, in this work are, geological or biological
speaking, ahistorical. There are no goals, no conjuncture, and no horizon as the vanishing
point in the space-time. The scope of her work is limbic”.
S/T, 2013
Graphite pencil on paper
46x62 cm.
We hope this show unveils your interest and wish to welcome you personally in the course of
the opening. For more information about the artist please feel free to contact the gallery.
Consell de Cent, 282 · 08007 Barcelona · (34) 93 488 1800 · [email protected]· www.ambitgaleriaart.com
ÀMBIT Galeria d’Art
DATA:
Títle:
IN PROCESS
Technique:
31 drawings. Graphite pencil, pastel and charcoal on paper
Opening:
June 4th 2015, at half past seven
Exhibition dates: Until July 31st, 2015
Catalog:
MARIA BALCELLS. IN PROCESS.
Place:
ÀMBIT Galeria d’Art
Consell de Cent, 282 08007 Barcelona
Telf.: (34) 93 488 1800
[email protected]
www.ambitgaleriaart.com
Schedule:
Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8,30 p.m.