Alina Muressan. Centro, 2024

Madrid,

It is not the first time that Alina Muressan, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic designer born in Romania but trained at the Art School and the Professional School of New Technologies of Madrid, exhibits in the capital (she has already visited the Istituto Italiano di Cultura) , but it is now exhibiting for the first time in the city, in the MADOS Space, “The Journey of Water”, a set of fifteen large-format works, in brush and Indian ink, dedicated to the urban landscapes of various districts. Madrid. As much as we recognize constructions, we should not look for literality in these pieces: in his creative process, Muressan first photographs details to then articulate imaginary views from them; He documents and then generates fictions, deploying his own vision.

He followed the same procedure in another of the cities in which he has resided, Mexico City, and in the region of Oaxaca (in that country he showed his work at the Museum of Mexico City, the Bada MX art fair, the Cultural Center of Spain, the Museum of Fine Arts of Toluca or the San Pablo Cultural Center of Oaxaca); After six years there, he has returned to Spain to rediscover the colors, shapes and corners of what he considers his city, the remnants of the past and those he glimpses of the future: Let me paint you the mark of the people who made their lives in the city; the current Madrid, fast and voracious, traditional and stately, mixed with the multiculturalism of the new generations.

The title, a priori strange in the case of the capital, refers to the well-known system of channeling and distribution of water that supplies its inhabitants; Muressan wants to remember the time when there was water roads that had to do with the life and prosperity of those who populated Madrid since ancient times. This author is interested in the intrahistory of ordinary buildings and monuments, the dialogues between emblematic constructions and rivers and parks (like two faces of a city that relate, making each other essential), and she has wanted to avoid portraying them in a more or less reliable way. what we all see to take to another scale the murmur that the streets suggest, the diverse ecosystem beyond the routine (and noisy) that distracts us.

In this visual memory of the city captured in synthetic panoramic views, changes and the passage of time play an important role: the past and the recent converge in works that are also an invitation to take a walk, since the viewer make each route your own, to look for the human connections that occurred there. And in these images, also in the Mexican ones, it is possible to detect the artist’s desire to be part of those places she inhabits, a need to integrate into her landscape, in which she usually finds exuberance and chaos, but also the poetry of what domestic.

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Alina Muressan.

“The journey of water”

MADOS SPACE

C/ Conde de Xiquena, 12. 1 Left

Madrid

From January 27 to February 8, 2025

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