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The Estudio Laterna Art Gallery. Where art unfolds throughout the space, weaving together dynamic forms and energies that invite the viewer into a multi-dimensional experience. Visitors are invited to engage with a curated collection that brings sculptural depth and painterly nuance into conversation, creating a sensory journey that prompts introspection. Here, every piece stands as a testament to the transformative power of art, encouraging reflections that linger beyond the immediate view.

We cultivate alliances that connect artists with audiences, nurturing dialogue that broadens perspectives and ignites creativity. Each artwork serves as a conduit for exploring the interplay of diverse forces, inviting a reflection of the intricate relationships we share. In this collaborative environment, we create a space where inspiration flourishes and artistic expression is elevated, fostering an appreciation for the complexities of our world and the art in it, through continuous exhibitions and a rich spectrum of artistic voices.

EDUARDO CHILLIDA BELZUNCE
Current Exhibition
Opening 4th October

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CARLITO DALCEGGIO
Past Exhibition
May/October 2024

ENRIC MAJORAL
Permanent Exhibition

ARTURO BERNED
Past Exhibition

PHENOMENA
Past exhibition
December 2023 / May 2024

LANDSCAPE OF THE SUN
Past Exhibition
May/December 2023

The Estudio Laterna Art Gallery. Where art unfolds throughout the space, weaving together dynamic forms and energies that invite the viewer into a multi-dimensional experience. Visitors are invited to engage with a curated collection that brings sculptural depth and painterly nuance into conversation, creating a sensory journey that prompts introspection. Here, every piece stands as a testament to the transformative power of art, encouraging reflections that linger beyond the immediate view.

We cultivate alliances that connect artists with audiences, nurturing dialogue that broadens perspectives and ignites creativity. Each artwork serves as a conduit for exploring the interplay of diverse forces, inviting a reflection of the intricate relationships we share. In this collaborative environment, we create a space where inspiration flourishes and artistic expression is elevated, fostering an appreciation for the complexities of our world and the art in it, through continuous exhibitions and a rich spectrum of artistic voices.

EDUARDO CHILLIDA BELZUNCE
Current Exhibition
Opening 4th October

View BIO and CV

CARLITO DALCEGGIO
Past Exhibition
May/October 2024

ENRIC MAJORAL
Permanent Exhibition

ARTURO BERNED
Past Exhibition

PHENOMENA
Past exhibition
December 2023 / May 2024

LANDSCAPE OF THE SUN
Past Exhibition
May/December 2023

The Estudio Laterna Art Gallery. Where art unfolds throughout the space, weaving together dynamic forms and energies that invite the viewer into a multi-dimensional experience. Visitors are invited to engage with a curated collection that brings sculptural depth and painterly nuance into conversation, creating a sensory journey that prompts introspection. Here, every piece stands as a testament to the transformative power of art, encouraging reflections that linger beyond the immediate view.

We cultivate alliances that connect artists with audiences, nurturing dialogue that broadens perspectives and ignites creativity. Each artwork serves as a conduit for exploring the interplay of diverse forces, inviting a reflection of the intricate relationships we share. In this collaborative environment, we create a space where inspiration flourishes and artistic expression is elevated, fostering an appreciation for the complexities of our world and the art in it, through continuous exhibitions and a rich spectrum of artistic voices.

EDUARDO CHILLIDA BELZUNCE
Current Exhibition
Opening 4th October

View BIO and CV

CARLITO DALCEGGIO
Past Exhibition
May/October 2024

ENRIC MAJORAL
Permanent Exhibition

ARTURO BERNED
Past Exhibition

PHENOMENA
Past exhibition
December 2023 / May 2024

LANDSCAPE OF THE SUN
Past Exhibition
May/December 2023

Carlito Dalceggio

Past Exhibition – May/October 2024

 

As one approaches Estudio Laterna, one’s eye is first caught by the golden lilt of the swaying grasses and a tender symphony of sound. The gentle breeze guides the mind and body into and through the garden to the first work in Carlito Dalceggio’s triumphal exhibition, “Tierra Desnuda ”.

A metal cut out of an abstracted figure stands stoically in the centre of the bucolic space. The tenacity of the material contrasted by the surrounding soft figs dripping from their years old branches. A dove rests on his head, wings outstretched, ready to guide the visitor into the gallery itself in its pleasant and peaceful ways. Dalceggio was born in Canada, though has long been a citizen of the world. His work is often inspired and materialised through mythic & symbolic narratives; this becoming increasingly evident as one moves through the exhibition.

Almost all of the work in the series has been made in Ibiza. The colours he employs speak to this truth; ochre reds reminiscent of the rich iron soil, golds harking to the warm evening glow, tones of aquamarine to reflect the moving waters over varying depths in endless coves and caves. This oceanic reminder prevails beyond the work itself; the walls move with a tide-like quality created through a traditional Ibizenco way of plastering and layering. The work is in a constant successful conversation
with its spatial context – elevating both entities. This very notion is indicative of the exhibition’s narrative and the philosophy of Estudio Laterna – we must cultivate symbiosis in our relationships and our societies to elevate each other to a higher level than we could have reached alone. Dalceggio describes the style of his work as “Primitive Futurism”. The word primitive has come to be understood in modern society as an unpleasant description of something ‘lesser’. However, it is my understanding, which has been reinforced by this exhibition, that to Estudio Laterna x SmithVaitiare return to simpler ways is not always a step backwards – but often the most effective way to move forward. Taking advice from the past, such as the stylistic inspiration Carlito has taken from Matisse and Picasso, can structurally inform new ways of communicating in the now, and in the future.

Dalceggio’s work ultimately seeks to propose a new way, a more peaceful and positive future for mankind. He does this not only through the pure aesthetic joy his work conveys, but through the use of universal archetypes that we can relate to on a basic human level – the sun, the moon, the freedom of a bird’s flight, the conversation between man and nature.

In this way, the exhibition speaks for itself. It is nurturing, it holds the soul and frees the mind.

Eduardo Chillida Belzunce

Opening 4th October – 8pm

“Light is what, with its shadows, becomes my true teacher. “Light and the loss of fear of colors are the painter’s best friends.”

Eduardo has been solving paintings for a long time, immersed in that exciting adventure that produces miracles granted by the desire and need to express things. In his studio there is rest, classical balance, and everything happens in its own time just as the light changes according to the hours of the day. Because Edu needs daylight to paint, that light that becomes the main protagonist of his works; “vigorous and pregnant with shadows”, radiant and spontaneous in its amplitude. The light in his painting is always accompanied by color, blue above all because the life of this painter “is full of blue”, of the sky and the sea seen from “Intzenea”, the family house in Igeldo on the way to the lighthouse, San Sebastian.
He analyzes light from the “inside”, how it floods or invades the interiors of his studio and his house, or in the objects he touches or caresses.

In 1985 Eduardo had a terrible motorcycle accident that caused him to remain in a coma for a month and a half. Against all medical predictions, Eduardo manages to get out of that dark tunnel, recover his speech, walk, and finally, with great effort, return to normal life. Due to the paralysis on one side that he suffered after the accident, he is forced to use his left hand to continue painting.

“If I can’t sculpt I paint, if I can’t use my right hand I use my left; “art goes more in the head than in the hands”

Eduardo builds the painting. First he prepares it, because the emptiness, the white color of the fabric and the absence of paint bother him; Cover with acrylic, paint abstract shapes and surround them with a dark, black or blue halo. Then he draws, with black oil, long lines and slow movement, fits the composition and looks for perspective. Finally, he puts paint over all of the above but “it only covers where it needs to be covered” on the outside of the painting, since if we stare at the canvases we see that the color is behind, hidden and hidden, contained. He knows how to put color even in the shadows, he is capable of creating a polychrome black.

And he always does it in a direct way and without networks, on a space full of detonating acrylic colors that serve as the first primer and support for everything that he subsequently draws, fills and shapes, in a process of concealment and subtraction. Sometimes warmer oil colors, and other times with colder and more sober ones. These are their Orígenes and will be exhibited for the first time in public in the next exhibition in the Estudio Laterna gallery curated by Andrea Sánchez.

And although it seems that he always paints the same and unique picture, his intersected worldview and his multifaceted visions of his Intz-Enea house or any other space that falls before his frontal gaze, continue to teach us that the interior space is as rich and complex as the exterior, and that internal journeys are always more absorbing and magical than the mere variations of the landscape, figures and things. Vermeer and Bacon already experienced it this way at different times.

Like the painters assigned to the New Figurations and realisms of the 70-80s, he is interested in the personal and biographical story, the story of the spaces, the lights, the people and the things that motivate him and matter to him: his house and its different spaces, his work studio, his own image as a painter and the landscapes he observes from the windows of his house.

But, in this kind of “emotional self-portrait”, linked to the expressionist tradition, other issues also appear, such as “virtual spaces” that open from some first spaces, paintings within paintings, windows and mirrors, openings of an “expansive vision.” They are “spaces that enclose other spaces, like a set of Russian dolls or Chinese boxes.”

In his sculptures the metaphysical surrounds everything and even creates a pre-humanist sensation. The bodies are without clothes, not naked, because magic and ritual may not need them and because corporeality is thus more manifest.

Enric Majoral

Permanent Exhibition

At the beginning of the 70s Enric Majoral discovered Formentera and said to himself: well, I’m going to stay this summer’ Since that small workshop in El Pilar de la Mola, greatly influenced by the island and the sea, until today, Enric Majoral has received the National Crafts Award (2007), named Master Goldsmith by the Generalitat of Catalonia. The brand has also received international recognition with the Design Gold Couture Award and the Design Silver Couture Award in Las Vegas. In addition, it has a permanent collection at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. At Estudio Laterna we are honored to have a unique collection of his Objectes de Bronze. Being in front of a work by Enric Majoral is an experience that invites you to contemplate the lucidity of a unique creation. The ancestral Mediterranean culture, and the island of Formentera in particular, are at the base of his creative universe.

Arturo Berned

Past exhibition

ARTURO BERNED is an architect and sculptor artist whose work is based upon the reinterpretation of both shapes and space, through a geometric language. Mathematics, the Euclidean space, and the Golden Ratio are geometric tools he uses as the means to understand the world around us; the physical world and the world of the senses. Corten steel is the material with which he produces most of his sculptures.


In Estudio Laterna we are pleased of exhibiting the Series “3 Daughters”,
Corten Steel, 180cm height, 200kg each.

Phenomena

Past Exhibition – December 2023/May 2024

Exhibition curated by Andrea Sánchez, featuring artists: Jai Vasicek, Danchú, Irene Cattaneo,
Javier Riera, Arturo Berned, Richard Hudson and Enric Majoral.
Curated by Andrea Sanchez, Phenomena exhibition translated the spirit of Estudio Laterna,
pushing boundaries beyond architecture and landscaping, connecting nature and its realms,
speaking the ever evolving language of the more-than-human. A nest of art in the heart of Ibiza island, manifesting a new perspective for local communities and international artists.
Date: December 2023/May 2024.
Phenomena
Estudio Laterna brought together different artists around the theme “Phenomena”, a project that through art awakens our understanding of ourselves and the universe.
The term “Phenomena” comes from the Greek φαινόμενoν, which means appearance or manifestation. When we speak of a Phenomena, we do not speak of the things themselves, but of how they appear to our understanding.
It is what Immannuel Kant considered as “the object of sensible experience” in “Critique of Pure Reason” (1781) and what the philosopher Edmund Husserl deepened with “the phenomenology” in the early 20th century.
On the other hand, Art is capable of capturing life and connects us with the source of our existence. If we look at the Art of ancient cultures, we observe how they experience being connected to everything: “… to think (…) things is to live in communion with them, to observe the images in order to enjoy and to see united the representations that are transported to human consciousness…” (“Mayan philosophy” , Miguel Hernández Díaz, p. 30 of the book “Latin American Philosophical Thought”, E. Dussel, E. Mendieta, C. Bohórquez, 2009).
Phenomena, curated by Andrea Sanchez, recovered this relationship between human experience and Art, and invited both creators and spectators to pay attention to how we observe in order to also see how they appear to us. It invited us to suspend our habitual way of reading the world, to wake up from our conditioning to constantly rediscover the phenomenon, to give it its voice and discover ourselves capable of seeing what has always been there… the whole universe in us.
Dr. Catherine del Carmen Alarcón Vásquez.
PhD in Education and Society from the University of Barcelona,

Landscape of the sun

Past Exhibition – May/December 2023

Exhibition curated by Andrea Sánchez in collaboration with Alex Flick, featuring artists: Alex Flick, Manuel Mathieu, Ina Gerken, Christopher Page, Nicholas Pope and Vivian Suter.
Fecha/Date: May/December 2023.

The exhibition and its canvases draw on a long history of painting – from ancient Roman frescoes 20th century Minimalism – in order to think through our contemporary visual paradigm that is dominated by screens.
Works demonstrate emotion through the visual exchange between line, form, and color to achieve harmony. Precise lines filled with power and ferocity, this guide the viewer’s experience as displays of energy. Paintings are an inquiring amalgam of figuration underpinned by abstraction, with something of the intensity of the indefinite forms that Francis Bacon is most celebrated for.
Collectively, we founded this sculpture attempt to articulate the (in)capabilities of the body. It
asked big questions about fundamental topics. What is faith? Can art play an ameliorative role in a moment of ill health? What does it mean for an object to stand in for an absent subject?
Some of the featured artists began to actively make use of local natural elements and materials in their paintings, including volcanic rock, soot, rainforest flora, rainwater, and microorganisms. This approach saw an acceptance of the power of nature and the environment. Each canvas was part of Estudio Laterna’s far-reaching ecosystem, a network of compositions that visually and physically display the abstracted story of their creation.

Estudio Laterna is an interdisciplinary design space based in Ibiza that integrates landscape architecture with a strong artistic approach. The studio was founded in 2004 by Andrea Sánchez and Ricardo Jarpa. The landscape architectural designs are led by Andrea with a team of landscape architects, biologists and artists. The application of the designs is directed by Ricardo with a team of professional gardeners and artisans. Together they create an alternative form of landscape architectural practice that unites design and exploration, pushing boundaries, connecting nature and its realms, speaking the ever evolving language of the more-than-human. This intertwining was the leitmotif that also inspired them to create Estudio Laterna Art Gallery, a nest of art in the heart of Ibiza island, manifesting a new perspective for local communities and international artists. Estudio Laterna is also developing other creative projects such as Kossmun, an experimental outdoor furniture brand.

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