Atlas

The term atlas is defined as a systematic collection of maps of various kinds, usually geographical or historical, of a given territory, usually presented in a single volume. More generally, it is understood as a grouping of descriptions belonging to a particular discipline. Throughout history, the artist has described his surroundings, establishing the landscape as a motif frequently used in painting.

Under the slight influence of urban references, Vicent Machí presents his work in which the chromatic sense invades the canvas and the pictorial register shows its possibilities based on its most characteristic elements: the line and the spot; the line and the surface; the address and the extension. The urban landscape and its most pictorial aspects serve as a premise for a self-centred work that describes itself, that takes painting as its main motif and uses its own elements as resources in its elaboration, giving prominence to the process and the construction of the image.

This exhibition is therefore nothing other than a cartography that presents the artist’s visual imagination; on the one hand it shows the urban dialogue travelled, lived and inhabited, which in some way influences the paintings, and on the other hand we see the pictorial language that the author uses to construct his own images.

The artist presents, through his own experiences, the way he understands and navigates the landscape and the territory, and what interests him about them, based on a contemporary vision of the city and using the resources of pictorial language.