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GUILLEM CRESPÍ ALEMANY, THE ART OF COMPOSING AND DISCOMPOSING COLOURS

The painting of Guillem Crespí Alemany revolutionises the colours of the palette. In each picture
an exceptional use of colour is converted into the real protagonist. This protagonist is embodied
in the concentrated force, in what captivates our look, in what surprises us with its intensity. The
colours are broken over the canvas. They fill it with flecks that are never the fruit of chance but
of an intelligent hand that moves with skill across the canvas, that understand the combination of
tonalities and plays with a great capacity for surprising us. Thousands of brushstrokes are combined
with magic and judgement.
An object stands out against a background that is an explosion of colour. An object that represents
an entire world of references which hides a story that the painter envelopes in an explosion of light.
At times it is a musical instrument. Guitars, pianos, trumpets, flutes and violins are forthright and
yet blurred presences.
Instruments abandoned on the canvas as if someone had left them to evoke melodies that accompany
us to the heart. At times these are animals that stand out from the background of the picture and
that exert a magnetic force. There is the Ibiza wall lizard that evokes Formentera for us, where they
blend into the rocks of the beaches. There are the splendid cockerels which offer arrogant or more
pensive outlines. On other occasions they are objects evocative of the universe: the bicycle, the
symbol of childhood freedom, of youth at the crossroads in the form of rivers; the rocking chair where
on so many occasions we have relaxed, as we reflected on life; the table laid, with the jug of cool water
and the glassfuls inviting one to quench one’s thirst; the basket full of fruit, an invitation to partake in
the pleasures of life, to take a mouthful of what is offered; the cluster of tomatoes on the vine, the
artichokes, the lemons or the references to the meal, a pleasure of the senses and also of sight.
Guillem Crespí Alemany plays with the forms of plastic and figurative expression; he has mastered
how to render them indistinct, to blur them, to mix them in a decoration of colours. This combination
of concrete and abstract forms serves to emphasise them all, to accentuate their expressive force.
Nothing is absorbed but rather intensified. To this end, he reveals to us the magic of the open and
yet subtle evocation starting from an object, disordering a thousand times the surface of the painting
in order to compose it again with an authenticity that ends by moving us.