Alain Urrutia Spanish, b. 1981

Alain Urrutia lives and works in Berlin. He graduated from the País Vasco University and Academia Brera Milano in 2004. Urrutia has exhibited at international Art Museums, including the Boston Centre for the Arts, CA2M Madrid, Artium Vitoria or Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in a group show during the summer of 2023 and individually 2012 in its 15th aniversary activities.

Urrutia is interested in the slow gaze of reality that occurs while he is painting. He works in an intuitive way. The work he has carried out to date is closely related to the idea that in photography, the reality becomes an image and it is subsequently translated into another reality when painted. In his view, the goal is not to reproduce a mechanical/digital photograph into painting, but to build a pictorial image. He seeks to create new readings and narratives from pre-existing images that are part of his personal imagination but also of the collective memory. To do so, he carries out a fragmentation or decoding of these images that, once stripped of their previous symbolic and historical charge, can be reconstructed so that they function independently as new visual and conceptual references.

In his practice, painting becomes a game of light and shadow in which, through resources such as reframing, concealment and details, he produces suggestive and almost evanescent images that demand the attention of the viewer.