The Granollers Museum presents Brindis , the last solo exhibition by Aryz, a project that is conceived as a space of celebration and pause, where the artist exhibits fragments of the creative process and shows how he approaches the search for his own language and the recurring themes of his studio work.
Oils, lithographs, pieces on paper and several unpublished notebooks that reveal the research of recent years can be seen at the Museu de Granollers. In them, Aryz’s usual practice of colossal muralism gives way to an equally monumental painting, with sober compositions and clear parallels with his works in public space. As he did in his recent exhibition Preludio , the artist continues to pay homage to the craft, demonstrating his interest in printing techniques, such as lithography or engraving, and, obviously, in painting.
The painting is static, but Aryz plays with this condition by trying to represent movement in a single image. He fragments and superimposes elements, combining anatomical parts with graphic fragments. His works function as pictorial collages where classical and contemporary elements, sacred and everyday aspects coexist.
Brindis takes up, with irony, an open critique of the art system: of the idea that art should be a product reserved for the elite, often the least interested in it. In Brindis , Aryz deploys a celebratory gesture: a toast to the creative process, to the craft and to an ancient practice called painting.
