Mastuset Mastuset

Text by the art critic Adelinda Allegretti:
"The over 20 photos on show at CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum constitute a group of core works, which I dare define “the first choice”, part of a wider cycle – in actual fact approximately a thousand snapshots – brought together under the title of “Epifania” (“Epiphany”). The result of a work carried out along a New Zealand beach, the photos of this cycle are clearly brimming with movement, but above all they are clear evidence of divine immanence and of its manifestation.
MASTUSET himself describes with great humility and clarity of thought the arrangement of sand into images worth of an abstract painting. They’re vibrating with energy but, at the same time, they’re structurally sound, harmonious, able to evoke the perfection of creation, its infinite wealth of possibilities, of transformations, seemingly random and chaotic yet so imbued with meaning as to let one infer their divine design. I like to define them as a rip in the fabric of Truth; it is however a rip lasting an instant, only just the time to sense one is snooping through a door left barely ajar onto “another” world. For their own very nature, the fascinating images resulting from this process are ephemeral and destin...

1997-1999 Escola Massana, Barcelona, Sculpture
1997 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Saint Etienne
1996 Winchester School of Art
1993- 1997 Escola Massana, Barcelona, Painting
1999- 2004 Faculty of Theology of Catalonia

[Solo shows]

2017 VETUS ART Gallery, San Sebastián – Donostia, Spain
2016 CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
2010 La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
2009 Poriginal Gallery, Pori Art Museum, Finland
La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
2008 Galleri Ingela S, Stockholm, Sweden
Galleria Carree, Kuopio, Finland
Espace Carte Blanche, Paris
2007 La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
2006 La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Galleria Bronda, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Gallery 47, London
2003 Finnish Institute, Madrid, Spain
1996 Centre Civic del Carmel, Barcelona, Spain


[Group shows]

2016 Art Innsbruck Art Fair, Austria
2014 Ars Europa Kustavi 2014, Finland
2013 Latino Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2011 Top TwentyFive Art Fair, Casablanca, Morocco
The Affordable Art Fair, London, Great Britain
2010 Ars Libris, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
ForoSur 2010, Caceres, Spain
La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
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