Alzueta Gallery is pleased to announce 'Bonavista 5', a group exhibition presenting the work of artists: Alberto Beltrán, Manu Blázquez, Jose Luis Cremades, Enrico Della Torre, Antonio González, Alex Marco, María Tinaut and Nelo Vinuesa.The show is titled after the address where the building housing the studios of the aforementioned artists is located, in Benifayó (Valencia), with the aim of conveying the atmosphere and uniqueness of this creative venue in a singular gallery space.

"There are 280K posts under the hashtag studiovisit scattered throughout Instagram. Images of unfamiliar spaces where painting, sculpture, and artistic equipment are showcased alongside the artist and their space. On many occasions, the artist poses next to the fortunate guest, who smiles at the camera, knowing that they have entered a privileged space. Other times, the image has been stolen; busy, we see the artist in motion, a short video in which they can be heard casually discussing their work or carrying a painting for someone who, pleased, enjoys the space and others' work.

[...] Galleries, fairs, and museums are also striving to create the illusion that we can approach not only the artwork but also the place where it was created, the time it was painted, the references that contaminated it: Miriam Cahn, the trees surrounding her concrete studio, the books behind her table, her plaid sweater, the Art Basel logo.The fascination for such rebellious places is inevitable [...] Places that have reached us in photographic format and are already in the imaginary of any art lover worth their salt.

Bonavista 5 is one of those spaces; its vibration is irreverent, immaculate. Everything that the giant hangar overlooking the vegetable garden treasures is free. The artworks have not been chosen, none have been silenced yet.

Bonavista is also a space that speaks of other spaces, a Perequian paradise inhabited by Alberto Beltrán, Manu Blázquez, Jose Luis Cremades, Enrico Della Torre, Antonio González, Álex Marco, María Tinaut, and Nelo Vinuesa. They are all together and they are all separated. A fascinating place where thinking ahead about the photo and the hashtag comes easy.

But besides being a space, Bonavista is time and attitude. It is an ecosystem: a community that has developed its own codes of coexistence. Its rules, its ways of understanding each other, its ways of doing things. It has grown and evolved organically, and each of its inhabitants occupies their space naturally. They didn't all arrive at once, there was no prior agreement, and yet it seems that it couldn't have been otherwise, as if the bond were already there before.

Bonavista is also canvases stacked against the wall, carefully wrapped with the care and skills of those who painted them. Works on pause, patiently awaiting their moment. Sometimes in their paintings, you can glimpse the presence of each other, also the shadows of flocks of birds crossing the window, the blue sky framed in the large iron door, the yellow sunset bathing the studio floor, the sound of the train, tireless and steady.

Bonavista is made of lunches in front of the sun, motorcycle rides through the vegetable garden, dogs wandering, heated debates about painting, and 32-bit games. A place without conventions, or rather, a place with its own conventions, almost violent in its irrationality.

Always ready to open their door to those of us who orbit around them, they invite us in, and for a moment we participate in the complacent mirage of belonging to a special place, to a place that eludes us and yet, we believe we can capture in a photo."

Press release courtesy Alzueta Gallery.