Landon Metz

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Parra & Romero, exhibition: Landon Metz (fig. 1)

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Parra & Romero presents, for the first time in Spain, the work of American artist Landon Metz (1985, Phoenix, Arizona), with an exhibition at the gallery in Ibiza featuring six previously unseen paintings, all created in 2026.

Known for an abstract pictorial language that explores the relationship between chance, control, and the physical properties of pigment on canvas, Metz has developed a practice over the past decade in which the process takes center stage. In this new body of work, the artist incorporates the human figure without straying from the principles that have defined his practice, but rather by expanding his visual vocabulary and his exploration of the interaction between matter, form, and perception.

In these paintings, bodies slowly emerge, flooding the canvas with expansive fields of color. These figures appear and disappear simultaneously, not seeking to portray a specific individual, but rather becoming a space through which questions related to individuality and interconnectedness can be explored.

The process remains at the heart of his practice. Metz pours pigment directly onto raw and unprimed canvases, allowing gravity, the fabric’s absorbency, humidity, and evaporation to play an active role in the construction of each image. The result is a surface where control and the relinquishment of control coexist, bearing witness to both deliberate action and forces beyond the artist’s control.

The six paintings, all of the same format, display large fields of color, while the areas of bare canvas maintain a constant tension with the pigment. The composition appears simple, yet reveals a delicate balance between appearance and disappearance, weight and lightness, fullness and emptiness—terms that seem opposed but are independent aspects of the same reality.

These works resonate particularly with the experience of light, space, and the slow pace that characterize the Pitiusan island. They invite the viewer to a slow and attentive contemplation, where the gaze can focus both on the physical qualities of the pigment and on that which remains difficult to define. Through this experience, Landon Metz invites us to pay attention to the material, the gesture, and the very act of being present, exploring how art can suspend—even if only for a moment—the distance we perceive between ourselves and the world.

Landon Metz is one of the most prominent artists of his generation in the field of contemporary abstraction. His work has been presented internationally in solo exhibitions and site-specific projects at institutions such as the Pietro Canonica Museum in Rome (2018), and has been included in exhibitions at the Villa Medici (2017), the Nassau County Museum of Art (2020), and the Palais des Études des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2022), among others. In 2014, he was an artist-in-residence at the ADN Collection in Bolzano, Italy, and in 2019, he was nominated for the Prix Jean-François Prat. His work is included in major international collections, including the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Rubell Museum.