CONTRAST GALLERY
Barcelona, Spain

CONTRAST Gallery and Art Projects

Art is an opportunity to have a unique and different experience every day: discover, contemplate, dialogue ... In short, let ourselves be enthusiastic about art and share it.

We pursue to show a line of work focused on Figurative - Conceptual art. Painting, sculpture and photography that have the desire to shape complex subjects such as philosophy, mysticism, symbolism or even geometry. Expressions that show us dreamlike environments, surreal images or symbolic portraits. All this leads us to the search for those pieces that we find exceptional and we want to present in our space.

In the art market we carry out a local program of exhibitions that is complemented with an important agenda; attending international fairs and sharing and exchanging exhibitions and projects with galleries from different countries; accomplices who have an affinity with our ideas and our line of work helping to enrich our cultural project. Art to insipire...

Rafel Bestard, The moon and me, 2021, Oil on canvas, 73 x 92cm — Rafel Bestard, *The moon and me*, 2021, Oil on canvas, 73 x 92cm

RAFEL BESTARD, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (1967)

“Well, there’s no doubt that there is some kind of real world outside our minds, but we know about it only through our experience - an experience that includes not only the direct information we receive through our senses, but also knowledge, memory, fantasy, imagination, dreams.... Conformism limits the experience of the world in everyday life, but we can feel that there is something else, and that is just there, in the joints of the armored commonplace that imprisons us.

From my early days I wanted the painting to reveal something: A special world in which the appearance of absurdity gives way in which things are rebelling against the narrow range of meanings which have been embedded in a world that is becoming increasingly complex. My work explores the relationship between fusion and fundamental opposites: Light and Shadow, Love and Death.”

IÑIGO NAVARRO, Madrid, Spain (1977)

“The choice and improvement of the techniques that I deploy have taken me years of study. I walk the same streets that Velázquez, Goya, Sorolla, Casas or Picasso once walked on. I consider this pictorial heritage as important as the narrative itself and my choice to paint does not depend only on my love for painting but also on my general conception of art.

Art is what it is and it is very simple, you see it, you understand it, you contemplate it, you admire it and so on, but the most important thing is that it inspires you; because what you can't see or understand gets you nowhere. If it's such an abstract idea that you need to read the Library of Alexandria to understand it, it might just be headless bustle or mindlessness.”

JULIANE HUNDERTMARK, Mainz, Germany (1971)

“I resort to the creation of mythical and rebellious characters, brought together to form theatrical and disturbing scenes, many of which refer to historical events, other religious, or even familiar and everyday scenes, always with a touch of authentic pathos.

I use the narrative within this pictorial universe, in which I try to find balance through quick and brilliant painting, and its combination with small pieces of collage, to create a dreamlike world in which the characters move between beauty and strangeness...”.

TANIA FONT, Palamós, Spain (1978)

"I speak out through my sculpture much better than with my voice... About isolation, about the noise caused by thoughts within a closed circuit of neuroatypical mental processes and how, sometimes, we can feel that they surpass us. This is the concept of the series "Deconstruction" , in which I am immersed. Internal thoughts that can make us break our heads. "