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Alejandro Campins

Sucedáneos exhibition views Galleria Continua Paris, 2024. Photo: Hafid Lhachmi

Alejandro Campins

'Distancia Interna' 2022, exhibition view Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

Alejandro Campins

'Distancia Interna' 2022, exhibition view Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

Alejandro Campins

Sagrado y bárbaro, from The Series Tíbet 2021, oil on canvas, 300 x 255 cm. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

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Falso peregrino, from The Series Tíbet 2022, detail, oil on canvas, 243 x 202 cm. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

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Viento de Ralung, from The Series Tíbet 2022, detail, oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

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Discípulo lunar, from The Series Tíbet 2022, oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

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Sin título. De la serie Tíbet / Untitled. From the series Tibet 2019, Archival pigment ink print, 20,5 x 25,3 cm each. Photo: Nestor Kim

Alejandro Campins

Sin título. De la serie Tíbet / Untitled. From the series Tibet 2019, Archival pigment ink print, 20,5 x 25,3 cm each. Photo: Nestor Kim

Alejandro Campins

A Cautionary Environment, 2019, Cuba Pavilion, Isola di San Servolo, 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

Alejandro Campins

A Cautionary Environment, 2019, Cuba Pavilion, Isola di San Servolo, 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

Alejandro Campins

A Cautionary Environment, 2019, Cuba Pavilion, Isola di San Servolo, 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

Alejandro Campins

Sucedáneos exhibition views Galleria Continua Paris, 2024. Photo: Hafid Lhachmi

Alejandro Campins

Zona 1, de la série Letargo, 2019, oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm.

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Canal, de la série Letargo, 2019, oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm.

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Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad, 2018, exhibition views Centro de arte contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, La Habana.

Alejandro Campins

Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad, 2018, exhibition views Centro de arte contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, La Habana.

Alejandro Campins

Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad, 2018, exhibition views Centro de arte contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, La Habana.

Alejandro Campins

Circo, de la série Letargo, 2019, oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm.

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Marea baja, de la série Letargo, 2018, oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm.

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De la série Letargo, 2018, oil on wood, 19 x 27 cm.

Alejandro Campins

De la série Letargo, 2018, oil on canvas, 27 x 19 cm

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S/T, de la série Letargo, 2018, oil on wood, 27 x 19 cm.

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Samurái, de la série Bad Lands, 2019, oil on canvas, 110 x 150 cm.

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Mirada púrpura, de la série Bad Lands, 2019, oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm.

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Presencia, de la série Bad Lands, 2019, oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm.

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Rio muerto, de la série Bad Lands, 2019, oil on canvas, 110 x 150 cm.

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Jardín, de la série 'Bunker’, 2017, oil on canvas, 45 x 60 cm.

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Tregua, 2014, oil on canvas, 160 x 230 cm.

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Ciudad de los muertos, 2014, oil on canvas, frame 35 x 50 cm.

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Fortuna, 2011, enamel on canvas, 480 x 319 cm.

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S/T, de la série Letargo, 2017, B/W photo, gelatin silver, 21 x 21 cm.

Alejandro Campins

S/T, de la série Letargo, 2017, B/W photo, gelatin silver, 21 x 21 cm.

Alejandro Campins

S/T, de la série Letargo, 2017, B/W photo, gelatin silver, 15,5 x 21 cm.

Alejandro Campins

S/T, de la série Letargo, 2017, B/W photo, gelatin silver, 21 x 21 cm.

Alejandro Campins

S/T, de la série Letargo, 2017, B/W photo, gelatin silver, 21 x 21 cm.

Alejandro Campins

S/T, de la série Letargo, 2017, B/W photo, gelatin silver, 13 x 19,5 cm.

Alejandro Campins: metaphysical spaces that provide contextual narratives

Alejandro Campins focusses mainly on painting in his practice and he relies on a deep and committed process to producing his final works. His works, sometimes taking up to a year to complete, are supported by an initial venture into getting to know the place, space or landscape he is wishing to depict. Using photography, drawings and sometimes video, he captures a place before returning to the studio to develop the photographs and make drawings. This helps to hone and synthesize the image into the essence of what the painting will be. Important themes like freedom, death, life and transience may come into Campins’ works but they are products of the natural course that the work takes. They are not selected, they are naturally formed by the space, colour, dimensions and compositions. Landscape is undeniably present. Mixed with the physicality of manmade structures, landscape is the form in which nature manifests itself. Providing a certain theatricality, it also brings about a sense of absence of the human form and instead transfers the identity of the work to the elements depicted in it.

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