OH Art Foundation is pleased to announce 

New Horizons

A solo exhibition featuring the work of Alejandro Botubol, which will be on view from September 20th to October 13th, 2024. We invite all to attend the opening reception on Friday, September 20th, from 7-10pm on “OH Art Gallery,” 3rd floor of the Zhou B Art Center.

Featuring work created during two residencies at Zhou B Art Center, New Horizons pulls back the curtain on the metaphysicality of memory. Despite the commanding presence of his work—rich palettes, distinctive forms, and confident compositions—Botubol approaches color and value with a familiarity that imbues his canvases with an ethereal endlessness. Forms act as prisms that refract time and space. Skyscapes meld together and tilt on their axes. Drapes become timelapses, suspended promises. A frame becomes a window which becomes a painting which harkens its own canvas. 

Botubol’s paintings are more than mere representations of the subjects he selects; he captures and transcends their objecthood in one deft stroke. Hailing from Cádiz, Spain, Botubol depicts the act of remembrance as a living, moving record, ever-entwined with the paradox of time. At times it becomes uncertain where one horizon ends and another begins; indeed, it is precisely this intangibility he strives to capture. In New Horizons, every canvas is a window which yawns into a passageway—if one only looks closely. Though just one of his pieces features the inclusion of found objects, all of his work uses material allusions to transport one to a realm that is simultaneously familiar and strange, solid and weightless, dreamlike and lucid: a place where moments become impressed into nostalgia. 

Alejandro Botubol (b. 1979, Cádiz, Spain) trained at the Facultad de Bellas Artes in Seville. He continued his studies in New York, where he was influenced by several North American artists such as James Turrell and Dan Flavin. Botubol then received a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art, Idea and Production at the University of Seville. He has stated that a constant in his work is his persistent exploration of spatial phenomena, incorporating internal and symbolic elements that have to do with life experiences, sometimes based on found images. Botubol proposes what he calls an “infinite painting” that delves into issues such as absence, gravity, spirituality and time, highlighting his work with geometry, color and light. 

Botubol was the recipient of the Gold Medal at the 82nd Valdepeñas International Fine Arts Exhibition (2021), and the Medal at the 34th BMW Painting Award, Madrid (2019). He has also carried out artistic residencies nationally and internationally, highlighting Residency Unlimited (RU) Brooklyn (2013); international studio & curatorial program (iscp), Brooklyn, New York (2013), Zhou B Art Center, Chicago (2022, 2024). 

His work has been exhibited in museums, art galleries and national and international institutions throughout Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Finland, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia and the USA. He currently lives and works in Madrid.