This light. This space

Aurora Vigil-Escalera Galería de Arte is pleased to present, from April 21 to May 22, the new monographic exhibition by Diego Moya (Jaén, 1943) “This light. This space”. With a long national and international career behind him, the artist returns once again to Asturias, after a long season, and does so through his most current and striking project: the light boxes.

The germ of these works arose in the 1970s, when a grant from the Juan March Foundation enabled him to investigate new materials, previously unknown to the art circuit, such as methacrylate. He took them up again in 2019 with an installation in the United Arab Emirates and new technological possibilities.

Art critic and director of the CGAC Museum Santiago Solana notes how they give the artist's production a new meaning: “the fusion between the material-gestural aspect of painting and the technological-industrial has always been present in Diego Moya's work, perhaps it was not easy to understand it as a central characteristic of his work, or at least that was the case for the writer, before the recovery of light boxes with the ambition of turning them into interactive, perceptive and immersive devices and not just contemplative ones.”

“Diego Moya’s light boxes have an intention to represent light with light, rather than using light as a material. In fact, it could be said that these pieces bring together various representative models, which follow the pattern of scientific experiments, although revisited from the imagination and the alteration of conventional points of view. (…) The boxes, as constructions, also function as objects that activate meditation, and in the randomness of the forms, aspects that characterize his painting, gesture or emotions, reappear.”