Alberto Peral

Photo credit: Juande Jarillo

Alberto Peral's work falls within the framework of formal investigations that extend the field of sculpture by incorporating media such as drawing, photography and audio-visual images. A sculptural work arising from the developments of shapes and primary colours and the use of techniques such as ceramics and collage that refer to the constructive principles of the historical avant-gardes. Peral uses geometric shapes, spheres, triangles, diamonds and trapezoids as elements of a formal vocabulary from which he develops projects to suit the space where they are exhibited. Objects and installations that hide in their apparent simplicity precision mechanisms and complex construction systems, which place the viewer's gaze in an area of double meaning and visual games. 

Alberto Peral (Santurtzi, 1966) lives and works in Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Leioa (UPV/EHU). He has won the Fellowship of the Academia de España in Rome (2005); the Fellowship of Artes Plásticas de la Fundación Marcelino Botín (2002); the Pilar Juncosa i Sothebys Prize (1999) and the Gure Artea Prize (1996). His individual exhibitions include: Nudos, Fundación Suñol, Barcelona (2015), Entornado, +R maserre galería, Barcelona (2014); Ladeira, Espacio bananeiras, Río de Janeiro (2008); Bailando, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid (2007); and Paisaje (with Jesús Palomino), Espai cúbic, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca (2000); Galería DV, San Sebastián (1997), Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (1996).He has participated in collective exhibitions that include The Process Room, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007), and Big Sur, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2002). His work is represented in institutions and museums such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), Bank of Spain, Banc Sabadell and Fundación Helga de Alvear. He co-directs the Halfhouse project, a space for artistic exchange and communication in Barcelona.