Until next 23 February, the Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC of Madrid presents in its greenhouse room of the Bonsai the exhibition Botane, by Angel Ferrández. In the photo, his work El descaro de una mirada.
Defined by specialists, critics and the artists themselves as a unit of style rather than a movement, surrealism is declared to be a series of individual investigations in which each artist confers his own style. A thesis that aligns with the work of the painter Angel Ferrández who, for two years has studied intensively and internally the Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC to offer in his work entitled Botane, a dreamlike and unexpected vision that surpasses the rationality of the same Garden.
“It is a deep and stopped walk through each of the corners of the Botanical Garden that can evoke scientific disciplines such as mathematics, chemistry, physics and, of course, biology, but also other arts such as poetry or architecture to create a sensory universe that dialogues with the natural richness of the environment and activates all the senses of the viewer”, Ferrández has pointed out.
In this sense, the director of the Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC, María-Paz Martín, has noted that “Angel Ferrández invites the spectators of the exhibition to a dreamlike journey through the Garden in works where reality fades or is interpreted in a surrealist way. We are certainly celebrating Angel’s return to RJB after a long absence to show us with his art spaces and corners that we, and surely many of the daily visitors, are accustomed to see and perceive with a more realistic look”.
The exhibition is composed of 25 paintings, some joined by diptychs, triptychs and structures, varying their size, and an artistic assembly. All works are made in acrylic on canvas. The first work, a composition that evokes a pond that rises from flowering branches, opens the door to a series of paintings that explore this landscape like a dream, without time or people. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
