Telax Award, held for 19th time at Antoni Pinyol Gallery in Reus is an international competition, modern and open to all artistic disciplines.
This award is organized annually and each year has increased its projection both nationally and internationally.
The purpose of Telax Award, is to hold an annual art show and facilitate the dissemination of works of art by award-winning artists. First organizing a group exhibition with artists selected and then a single artist’s show with the work of the winner.
The winner of this year has been Àurea Bellera (Andorra), painting, two second prizes have been awarded to Beatrice Bizot (France), sculpture and another to Anna Valls Boza (Terrassa) painting. From the 8th to 30th July will be exhibited at Antoni Pinyol Gallery the works of the selected and the winners of the 19th Telax Award.

In the selection of works exhibited at Antoni Pinyol’s Gallery, Pedro Galera shows simultaneously the inside and the outside, the description and the insinuation, the public and the private sectors. The paintings have windows through which we access to a domestic dimension of maximizing space, which serves as background. A set of windows as a magic trick where the trap is in sight. The illusion of space is like a game of mirrors where it is not important what we see, but what it is insinuated. And what it is suggested shares the duality that is the substance of Peter Galera’s painting, the spiritual and the earthly.
Samuel Salcedo

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 work shown at Antoni Pinyol’s gallery belong to a block named Crippled Symmetries, in which the author has been working since early 2007.
Crippled Symmetries title is a homonym of the composer Morton Feldman’s work (of whom it is said the Schubert of the twentieth century) which in turn is often based on the American abstract painting. This constant and obsessive use of symmetry is due to an attempt to build more direct and less narrative images, of an as immediate as possible presence and as powerful and forceful. Its slight “clipping”, which begins by being a non-geometric and accurate symmetry, but organic, physical, speaks perhaps about an impossibility of perfection, or rather the purpose of making a virtue of the error and a working method.
Thus, one of the key aspects in the author’s work is, for several years, the research on the relationship between the pictorial and the musical, which leads him to make a kind of painting very scenic, considering the theatrical space as a meeting place between music and image. It is, we should say, one of the centers and starters of this work.

Abstract illusion of inner vision is the thematic basis of this oil painting collection began in 2004 and still in process.
Highlight certain structures and thoughts connections, feelings and human sensibilities form the focus of this work. The relationship between illusion and reality and the possibility of a new integration between them, constitutes the heart of the matter.