JD MALAT GALLERY PRESENTS 'THE GARDEN', A VIBRANT SOLO SHOW BY LUIS OLASO
Luis Olaso In Studio
JD Malat Gallery has announced opening of The Garden, the second solo-show at the gallery by Bilbao-based artist Luis Olaso (b. 1968), and you can visit from 13th July until 12th August 2023. Here, you will journey through Olaso’s memories via his exciting reinterpretation of the still life painting. There are eight new large-scale works in The Garden, and the energetic exhibition will showcase bold colours, natural motifs and a representation of Olaso’s daily life and surroundings.
“I am in a personal moment in which I feel fascinated by nature. I live surrounded by it: my passions are my garden, where I grow my own plants and eat them, and my sailing boat. The fascination for life and nature is present in all of my works, I think it is my greatest source of inspiration.” – Luis Olaso
Olaso has defined his process as therapy, calling his paintings a form of abstract self-portrait, and “a moment free from social conditioning, obligations, and pretences“. His approach to painting, Action and Analysis, bridges chaos and order. Olaso creates raw shapes, patterns, and maps of colour across the canvas, and after hours of inspection and analysis, decides what works and what doesn’t. He is then able to create uninhibited, emotive, and visceral paintings reflecting his irrational subconscious self.
“My work is always a self-portrait. Not a self-portrait at the level of representation, but a self-portrait of emotions and personal state. From there comes the colour, the viscerality, the expression in the brushstrokes that help me to represent the iconographic imagery of the close elements of my day to day – in this case, plants, still lifes and different elements of my life.” – Luis Olaso
JD Malat Gallery, 30 Davies St, Mayfair, London, W1K 4NB
