Alzueta Gallery Paris is delighted to present Early Lines, a solo exhibition by Catalan artist
Enrich.R, running from January 6 to February 7 at 8 rue des Beaux-Arts, in the heart of
Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Enrich.R’s paintings unfold through layers and patina. The surfaces, deliberately unstable,
are marked by fissures, accidents, and subtle shifts in material. Nothing is purely decorative:
each imperfection traces the slow construction of the work, the succession of layers, and the passage of time on the canvas. The painting becomes a skin—sensitive, textured, and
capable of preserving the memory of every gesture.
For this Paris solo show, the artist presents a series of paintings conceived as a cohesive
whole. Each canvas asserts its own presence, yet resonates with the others. The space
invites a holistic experience: the works unfold like a visual melody, a score of lines and
colors that gradually reveals itself, moving with a rhythm at once structured and intuitive.
The compositions revolve around deep, rich hues—intense green, raven black, wine red,
navy blue—intersected by one or more bright lines. These lines break up the chromatic
balance, structure the pictorial space, and introduce a subtle tension. From canvas to
canvas, their number and intensity shift, creating a shared cadence, a collective breath.
Here, the line becomes a key element: it organizes, connects, and sets the surface into
motion.
This series draws its inspiration from an intimate landscape: the artist’s home, nestled among fields in Catalonia. The marges—the stone walls that mark the boundaries of agricultural plots in Catalan—serve as a conceptual rather than formal starting point, and give the series its name. They suggest ideas of boundary, separation, but also of passage. The canvases never close in on themselves: they communicate, respond to one another,
and seem to bleed into each other. The work is conceived almost democratically, as a whole in which every element carries as much weight as the entirety.
Enrich.R remains committed to painting as a primary language. Simplicity, harmony, and formal beauty structure his work, always underpinned by a subtle tension—the one that arises between control and accident. Through Early Lines, the artist offers a holistic pictorial experience, where repetition, variation, and deviation shape a space for contemplation. The canvases assert themselves as places of passage, where line, color, and composition interweave to create a presence that is at once quiet and enduring.
© Text and Photo Courtesy of Alzueta Gallery Paris
