BRUNO OLLÉ

For this, his first Solo Exhibition in the city, the Spanish artist aimed to present a show which was bold and different, but that at the same time represented his oeuvre as a conceptual artist interested in the idea of the already found objects and the importance given to them depending on their context.

To collect from the ground the unusable piece of a broken object, a plastic, a leaf, a stone. To save. To select and save again. Discard and collect. There is something both ritual and spontaneous at the same time in the gathering of objects that find their way into our pockets. What has value and what doesn’t? Why choose one object over another? In pockets, a thin red thread. In pockets, a coin. In pockets, the hands. Pockets as storage and rest.

Bruno Ollé’s exhibition is a game of volumes and shapes that converge to create new images and symbolisms. With painting as the central axis, a series of elements fit together like pieces of a small puzzle. “En los bolsillos” gathers a selection of works that result from the search for essential forms, archetypes, and colors that, through the language of play, are articulated with each other as if it were a construction. Bruno Ollé’s works reflect a creative freedom resulting from an exercise free of rules, like a child’s game or the randomness of objects in the pocket.

“Children’s play is a game of creation and constant transformation of rules. And it is precisely this capacity for invention and constant transformation of rules that makes it so attractive and fascinating.” -Boris Groys