'Traza' (Trace)
Traza, is the first solo exhibition of Álvaro Negro in Vilaseco Gallery. For this exhibition a total of 11 unpublished pieces have been selected, all of them painted in the last months in the artist's studio in Agolada (Pontevedra) and in the same line of work as the pictorial project undertaken in Rome, after his stay at the Royal Academy of Spain. Artworks of abstract character, which evoke a tradition of Western painting as twinned in history as the Italian and Spanish. The artist cites some reference works by Giotto or Lorenzo Lotto, both for the chromatic palette and for textures that have much to do with the detailed observation of fresco painting.
The works in this exhibition also show a return to the painting made by the artist in his beginnings, such as the paintings of the Traza series, essentialist in the mere use of graphite and glazing, as occurred in paintings like Candán (1996), whose title refers to the mountainous system of the same name, Álvaro Negro's childhood landscape.
