GROUP EXHIBITION

For this exhibition, Miquel Alzueta, founder of the gallery, has selected and loaned eleven 16th- 17th- and 18th-century frames from his private collection, inviting each artist to illuminate one of these frames with their work. This process subverts the usual approach, where a frame is chosen to fit a piece; here, the artwork is instead created to adapt to the frame’s dimensions.

Beyond being mere ornamentation, the frame defines the boundary and space of the artwork, becoming a place that not only encloses but actively participates in the composition. The exhibition presents the works separate from their traditional frames, prompting viewers to reconsider the frame as an independent entity—one as significant as the painting itself in shaping the interpretation of the work within the exhibition space.

The exhibition culminates with a piece by Jordi Alcaraz, the only artist to fully integrate the frame as an essential component of his work, merging the two into an inseparable whole. In this way, Marco. Límite y lugar fosters a profound dialogue between canvas and frame, tradition and contemporary practice, underscoring the fundamental role of the frame in both the conception and perception of the artwork.

“Some people say that a frame ends up dressing the painting. Personally, I have been passionate about frames for many years, and I disagree. Frames were created and must be able to live independently from the paintings they contain. The frame is a body of its own that, at certain times, shares its existence with a painting in it. So little yet so much. Therefore, we wanted to present this exhibition, dissociating frames and paintings, in order to understand the intrinsic value of each of the parts.

In addition, the exhibition aims to be an example of coexistence between visions of the art world, which are far apart in time, in their traditions and even in their objectives. In this confrontation of both visions, a new work appears, a force provoked and multiplied by their simple coexistence and I would even say by their simple proximity.

Here, we see the frame as a veil, as an aura that covers art from art. It is the open window to the dreams and revenge of the artists, the ice on the borders and the fire on the perimeters.

Between the almost four centuries that separate the oldest frame from the most recent painting, that both coexist and bring together ice and fire, not as opposing elements but as complementary ones: both necessary, both desirous of each other, coinciding for a time in a shared reality. Like love and desire.

Here, paintings and frames nourish the mysterious path of something as complex, difficult, and almost impossible as capturing beauty in a moment, suspending it in time, and framing it for eternity.” Miquel Alzueta.