Khalid El Bekay is a recognized Moroccan artist who has a studio in Barcelona and Casablanca and is considered among the leading representatives of contemporary art, not only at home but in Europe. He has exhibited in various galleries and museums in Spain, France, Italy, Germany … and in his home country and other countries of the Middle East.
“TERRE”
It is the result of an evolution, a constant search for the color as an expression of inner realities. (…) abstraction that has the same nature. Abstraction? That is a matter, because as we all have traveled by plane and have seen the earth when the device takes off or seeks security track, we know from patches of plowed soil or in the already growing, green, wheat or barley and we admire the geometric sense of the farmers who care the fields.
Jose Maria Cadena
Journalist and art critic
The artist Khalid El Bekay has again demonstrated his extraordinary mastery of technical resources as limitless as originals in the field of pictorial collage. The search for balance and simplicity are other key points to highlight of this very interesting and successful career constantly driven by the creative interests and desire to excel.

Raquel Medina

The exhibition is divided into four projects:
“Tropical paintings 2004-2007. The themes of these paintings focus on organic elements (fruit, seaweed, rocks …) found in recent trips to Brazil, Argentina and Thailand. They are futher pictorial results from pen drawings on paper.
“Project India” 2006-07. After 6 months working and collecting ideas in India I develop a detailed and meticulous technique similar to their traditional technique. Most of these paintings are a collection of two units where we sense a religious and symbolic Indian thematic .
“Naturaldia” 2008-09. After working almost two years a detailed and meticulous painting in the Indian project, I begin to develop a project with a much more free and expressive result. They are heavily textured paintings, that show a result of combination of colors contrasting with circular motions.
“Fiord” 2009-10. This project focuses on the investigation of a plastic repertoire of rounded shapes and a range of cool colors. The faded and slides acquire great importance to create volumes and fluids.
It contains the developed technique in the Indian project, combined with the expressiveness and movement of Naturaldia project.

Punts Suspensius is a work made by photoetching techniques and procedures, which tryes to open a road to connect the birthplace (the nest) with the universe.
It starts from a photo of a kiosk of dwellings for birds. Strategies of attrition are used, through the power of chiaroscuro and the contrast between full and empty spaces.

The proposal reconsiders the initial value and condition of the object itself, the reason for which it was created. Once this object ceases to be useful, it no longer serves to any purpose. With this work, in a way, I wanted to pay tribute to these objects impregnated with previous experiences, which they also lose an inherent condition, the three-dimensionality. Crushed first and cut and separated later, the resulting fragments find a new way to organize themselves, as they become irreducible objects.

(The title is taken from the book “Work and days” by Hesiod (S.VIII a.C.)
In this book the Greek poet creates a singing to the honesty and to the work dignity, against the idleness and the laziness. Also he shows a mythological and poetic evolution of the humanity ages associated to different materials: Gold, silver, bronze, iron…
The exhibition holds
The installation “Gli strumenti dell’arte”
Drawings of the series “Sculptor constellation”
The installation calls up the extension of the own body, to a series of elements that become prosthesis of the inner need of making and they finish becoming facts; tools that once dumb and put on the solemnity of the shelf, push us to remember the use in a kind of resonances dialogue almost sacred.

He lives and works between Madrid, Santiago de Compostela and Montevideo.
He studied in the workshop “Bien al Sur”, Joaquin Torres Garcia Museum.
Classes on art theory with Anhelo Hernández (direct student of Joaquín Torres García) at National School of Fine Arts in Montevideo.
He creates Puerto54 Workshop where he begins to explore the introduction of criteria expressions to the idea of structure in the paint.

At present this Award is steeped in a philosophy full of aesthetic values of a young an emerging art and also it is a a platform for the dissemination of these new representatives of visual languages, which are undoubtedly able to build bridges of relationship between the various existing creative tendencies.
Through different Annual Prizes, the gallery has established itself as an art space that apart from promoting the creation, is also intended as a place where art actions can be developed, in order that this space is not a platonic space, but a productive space of mobile art, and neither a platform isolated from its surroundings.
Joan Casals

The work of the artist and architect Dennis Maher explores critical approaches to the demolition, renovation and restoration. Since 2003 he has been delving into areas affected by demolition, waste containers of construction materials and recycling materials stores in search of materials and obsolete items. The recovered components are stacked creating regenerated spaces, transforming lost places to rediscovered places, by means of recovery. His work explores the latent potential of the waste and the void, creating opportunities for regeneration in the most banal and least respected of the urban landscape. By carefully weaving the elements into disuse, new projections of imaginary cities and landscapes invented germinate, suggesting a new reality.

His work is located within the renewed current of figurative painting that since the late sixties is developed in Spain.
Founding member of the multidisciplinary group L3C in 1989, with which he has exhibited in all his manifestations, as “El gobierno de los pies” in Madrid or “Entre ajo y zafiro” in Valencia. He has participated in numerous collective and generational actions such as “Muelle de Levante” or “La canción de las figuras”, and has exhibited individually in Spain, Italy i USA.
He had a grant from the Fundación Cañada Blanc, his works have been recognized by museums and foundations such as the Reina Sofia Museum, or the Banco de España and Weissman Foundation in Los Angeles among others. He gets the Bancaja Prize in 2001, and Caja Sur in 2003.

Attempted escape, transformation of reality. The delicacy of white, colored only by the shadows of the loops, recreates a world of peace of mystical connotations. Thus arises Alma de niquel and thus leads to a universe of conflicting areas in which the confrontation between white and black is just the beginning: geometric shapes outline the chaos, the concave becomes convex; receptacles, instead of containing only serve to separate the space, creating pathways into the air, directing; the quotidian holds a prominent place, the hardness of nickel is accommodated in the cotton, the plan is three-dimensional; the interior is at once outside….. Thereby, confrontation gives way to conciliation, to the coincidence oppositorum spoken by the alchemists, which decays limits and makes everything to be one.