Peter Halley and Yago Hortal
H-H. Halley meets Hortal
January 29–March 23, 2016
Opening: Friday, January 29, 7:30pm
Press conference: January 29, 11am
Galería Senda
Calle Trafalgar 32
08010 Barcelona
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 11am–8pm,
Monday by appointment
T +34 934 87 67 59
Galeria Senda is pleased to present H-H. Halley meets Hortal, a collaborative exhibition featuring the work of artists Peter Halley and Yago Hortal.
Concurrent with its relocation to Trafalgar St. no 32 in Barcelona, Galeria Senda is reinventing its exhibition program by placing a renewed emphasis on highlighting Barcelona’s artistic scene, with particular focus on the gallery’s impact on the city. Galeria Senda will carry out this program through the creation of several artist residencies in the city concentrating on local culture and architecture, as well as through collaborative projects with international artists in which the local landscape is absorbed and transformed.
Senda began working with Peter Halley in 1992, when Halley presented his work for the first time in its space on Pasaje Mercader. Since then, he has done four solo exhibitions at the gallery over a period of 23 years.
It was after a conversation with Halley, in which we spoke to him about the gallery’s new exhibition program, that the artist from New York proposed a four-hands exhibition, a collaborative project with Barcelona’s Yago Hortal, who regularly exhibits with Senda.
The enthusiasm of these two artists for taking part in this collaboration has turned this exhibition into a unique event of special importance, something that goes further than the usual solo painting show.
The exhibition: H-H. Halley meets Hortal has come together after eight months of conversations, email exchanges, and the cross-posting of ideas, studies, and drafts in which both artists responded to each other’s practice.
This led to conversations about things they have in common—and others that differentiate them—inside the world of abstract painting. It highlights the New Yorker and the Catalan, experience and youth, rationalism and randomness, geometry and gesture, two approaches to the mastery of color… a back and forth dialogue about what unites them and what distances them.
At Senda, each artist will exhibit three large paintings, conceived of with the goal of establishing a conversation. In addition, Peter Halley and Yago Hortal have created five collaborative works on paper, signed by both artists.
See you on January 29 at 7:30pm!
Click here to see a preview of the show.
For interviews and images please contact Andrea Fiore: andrea [at] galeriasenda.com / T +34 934 87 67 59
