Parra & Romero presents the gallery’s third exhibition with Thomas Scheibitz and his first solo show in our space in Ibiza.
In the sharp forms of the contours of his works, we can glimpse his interest in spatially defining the elements that structure the composition. In this taste for form, the artist’s work, despite its evident interest in abstraction, does not completely break its link with reality, although it does not adhere to the presuppositions of naturalism. His work questions the relation of seemly dichotomy that exists between abstraction and figuration. Scheibitz creates his own system, generating contours and colors that dissolve the represented object and recompose it in a new pictorial cosmos but maintaining a link with it that allows to intuiting it at the very end.
In A Broken Arm of an Island, Scheibitz takes his idea of Ibiza as an unfinished process. In some occasion, he denominated his creative strategy as a “tectonic construction”. Tectonic implies the deformation of something, a physical and natural mechanic that deforms the observed object. On the other hand, the idea of construction emphasizes the processual aspect of creative action. Ibiza itself is a minimal unit of cohabiting, a geopolitical space with its own entity that has been forging over the centuries, and all approaches to a representation of the island would be fragmentary.
The landscape is an usual starting point for Scheibitz. However, he is not particularly interested in landscape as a genre, but uses more as an excuse to generate those rich pictorial spaces in which color surfaces and interstitial spaces are conjugated, taking a central role on his work. Scheibitz creates artificial landscapes which emphasize in the idea of human life as part of a subrogated nature. He understands painting and sculpture as the fabrication of a second nature, as if it was emplaced in an artificial world by right. Generally, the landscapes he represents in his works are usually barren lands or other spaces of solitude.
All those tropes play a fundamental role in Scheibitz work. The observer is not oblivious to what is happening in the scene, he is familiar with some of the elements that compose it. In this exhibition the artist seeks to generate new relationships or dialogues between his pictorial and sculptural work, combining both disciplines to create a story about his experience of Ibiza.
