Esclats 1995

This is "Esclats" by Albert Rafols-Casamada, and what strikes me is the way it has emerged through gesture. I can almost see the artist at work: the canvas a site of inquiry, where trial, error, and intuition guide each brushstroke. I imagine Rafols-Casamada, with his careful balancing act, how it might have felt to apply those thin washes of paint, each layer responding to what came before. See those vertical lines on the right? The way they stand so quiet and reserved? Then there's the surface itself—the slight texture suggesting a history of touch, each mark a decision, a question posed and tentatively answered. It makes me think of Agnes Martin, another artist who understood the power of subtlety and restraint. Artists, like Rafols-Casamada, are in an ongoing conversation. They are always thinking, exchanging ideas across time, inspiring one another's creativity, a reminder that painting is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity, allowing for multiple readings.