Arnau Alemany is recognized as one of today’s leading Surrealists. Alemany is unique in that all of the elements in his pictures are readily identifiable. Taken individually, the buildings, people, trees, streets, cars, planes, etc., are items of contemporary life. This Spanish artist is included in the new Surrealism Museum along with Salvador Dali and others, in addition to having works in numerous private collections and museums worldwide.
His surrealism is found in the overall environments he creates. The various elements converge into an ecology which is nowhere to be found in this world, despite the fact that everything is completely recognizable. A viewer looking at an Alemany painting will eventually notice the elusive locale of his pictures, not magically so but ecologically. The terrain of his settings is foreign, and for this reason Alemany was called a “ string theory surrealist.” In modern physics, string theory postulates that there are multiple universes folded upon one another. Hence, they may be similar but are not identical.
Alemany is Spain’s foremost painter of Surrealist environments and industrialized cities of the past and future. Looking at his pictures, we are at “home” with all the objects comprised withing its boundaries, but we are not familiar with the geography and topography. Appreciated in this way, his surrealism is truly 21st century in its realization.
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