Michael Lawton (Sheffield, UK, 1980; lives in Barcelona) uses abstraction to depict prosaic things like a wall or a desk, or to narrate verbal moments, vivid or speculative; the precise instant when a phosphorescent ash cloud solidified around the city of Pompeii, for example, or the moment our ancestors emerged from the primordial swamp 3.8 billion years ago.

In this first exhibition by the British artist at Ana Mas Projects gallery, he will present a new series of paintings created especially for the occasion, in which the artist explores a particular reflection inspired by the goddess Enodia, protector of the roads.

Thus, forming the central core of the exhibition, the idea of duplicated paintings that we could see at his last exhibition at La Capella (Barcelona), is deployed in a new approach through a series of eight half-formed paintings that offer a view of a place in a road, as if it were a sequence of frames, inviting us to perceive subtle differences in the darkness, similarly as when we observe the small marks and sparkles in the black leader that precedes any 16 mm film projection. Lawton‘s characteristic palette of bright and fresh colours gives way on this occasion to works in which colour loses prominence, in favor of a darker, almost monochrome palette. Alongside this group, the exhibition also incorporates a series of vibrant new acrylic paintings. Writing, so characteristic of Lawton‘s practice, will also be present.