Aryz, PRELUDIO
PRELUDIO follows the line begun with the Vestigio series, in which the artist Aryz – Octavi Arrizabalaga (Palo Alto, 1988) engages in a dialogue with some of the creators who have influenced him throughout his career. On this occasion, he presents a series of large-format oil paintings conceived as small visual dialogues with the great masters of painting. Each work is a tribute to the classical pictorial tradition and some of its fundamental themes.
From a contemporary perspective, Aryz acknowledges the legacy of traditional painting and revindicates the painter’s craft as a legitimate means of expression and cultural transmission. PRELUDIO is essentially configured as a bridge between past and present: a deliberate return to pictorial tradition that functions as an introduction or opening to a more experimental artistic proposal yet to be revealed.
