Read images

This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, although he has participated in previous seasons of our programme: in 2002-2003 in the 5th thematic season: Touch (Con-tact) and in the 2013-2014 season he participated in the collective “Paisaje.0”. “Reading images” is a new exhibition project that the artist is presenting for the first time and which is part of the programme of events for the 9th edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 23, which will take place from 14 to 17 September. The exhibition proposes a reflection on the relationship between images and texts, between what we see and what we name, one of the transversal themes in the work of Ignasi Aballí. Starting from a selection of photographs found in different newspapers (objects from which the artist has carried out various projects), a series of nineteen paintings made from them are shown. The working methodology consisted of scanning each image and then finding its average colour (the colour resulting from the mixture of all of them), using a Photoshop function. The image has been reduced to a single colour, or we could also say, to a single pixel that is repeated throughout its surface. This process makes it impossible to see the image as it was, since it has been altered, “erased” (or hidden), so that we can no longer identify it, thus leaving its interpretation and visualisation completely open.