Pere Llobera is first and foremost a painter. But to gain new inspiration, he frequently sets his easel aside, for instance to produce a poetic suit of armour for his youngest daughter, to keep her at that magical age for ever. Or he might make a video of his elder brother playing the drums, to immortalise him as a rock star, even though his brother in fact abandoned his dream of a career as a drummer over twenty years ago. These objects then inspire the artist to make new paintings, which are effectively assembled in the same way. Diverse in the way they are elaborated, the unity of the artworks in Llobera’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Fons Welters lies in their intimate point of departure.
Pere Llobera tries to grasp the nature of reality through his paintings. But what is fact and what is fiction within the fabricated reality of his paintings no longer seems to matter. Facts and fictions merge. Memories are exposed to the now, and enter into new relationships with the past. Nothing is as it was, and nothing is as it seems. From a personal point of departure, Llobera tries to find a larger reality, but he is aware of the many versions of it that exist.
Opening: Saturday the 26th of April 17 - 19 hour