Phygital Art Show
A solo exhibition by Pol Solà
With delicate and subtle work, Pol Solà builds an abstract universe inspired mostly by nature. Balance is one of his main themes in the constant search for harmony and equilibrium. His elements float, intertwine, and reach a state of perfect consonance.
His work flows between the digital and the physical. In this sense, Phygital Art Show is a multi-channel and multidimensional exhibition, as the gallery’s physical space is amplified on a purely digital level. Both kinds of artwork complement each other in parallel and simultaneous planes as part of the same surreal landscape.
Light is a binding material in both dimensions, but it’s with the orchestration of gradients and colors that a particular emotionality arises. There is silence, depth, and an introspective stillness.
In the oscillation between the digital and the physical, Solà passes through a continuous exploration of material natures. In this case, he generates a sequence of works that ranges from pure mechanization in the virtual dimension, to the more chirographic process of acrylic. His body of work is both extraordinary and hybrid since his own process fluctuates between 2d and 3d.
As a digital artist, he vindicates and celebrates the expressive possibilities of this medium instead of representing a likeness of reality. With this in mind, he produces expansive works that reverberate back on themselves, as well as environments that evoke a meditative state, like windows to another time.
Phygital Art Show + is the evolution of the physical exhibition, and moves towards a collective, multichannel and multidimensional experience. Starting from the abstract landscape and digital mysticism generated by the imaginary of Pol Solà, the show includes the vision and reflection of different guest creators. Phygital Art Show + is ultimately an infinite space, without time limits, which seeks the perpetuity of art for art's sake in a collective sense.
Continuing the experience of the first physical exhibition, this project takes up again the 13 pieces by Solà, but this time only as a reference, each of them being reinterpreted by a different artist. The only premise when generating the pieces is the use of a different technique from the original work. The result is creations that goes from 2D to 3D techniques and vice versa, and that, while maintaining the visual concept, reinvent depth, light, movement, textures, and shapes. The exhibition explores the capacity of digital art, proposing it as a reference in itself, as a starting point for new works that no longer derive from the physical but from a new, purely digital reality. At the same time, the exhibition presents digital art as an exhibition format, offering a glimpse of the endless possibilities that this new environment offers us.
Moved by the passion for digital art, friendship, and collaboration, this project has been possible thanks to: María Alarcón, Pablo Alfieri, Simon Appel, Nico Castro, Adrià Chalaux, Carolina Carballo, Guille Comín, Seba Curi, Joan Guash, Kushagra Gupta, Guido Lambertini, Helena Marti, Valeria Moreiro (Color Poetry), Carlos Neda, Daniel Savage and Adriana Valenzuela (Boom Lab).
