Javier Riera

After years of experimenting with light and landscape interventions, Riera returns to painting as the central activity of his work, now in an evolved way. "De lo próximo y lo lejano" offers us a series of wooden plywood that have been intervened with drills to achieve bas-relief incisions that remind us so much of his projections on nature. The result recovers the search for a relationship between the organic and the precision of geometry. The drawings of the wood grains, with their changes of tone and indefinite lines easily suggest landscapes, distances that remind us of the representations of the Taoist tradition of inks and stains. Geometry enters over them, as a way of extending space in another dimension beyond the organic one. Thus a coexistence is created between two dimensions, the visible and an invisible one that is no less present. Finally, the painting intervenes by staining, hiding as well as showing, creating a bridge between something that is inside and the reflection of the light that is outside. A work that brings together under a different format the extensive experience of the artist, and which would not have been possible without the invaluable collaboration of Rosalina Fernández.