Notes related to Max Estrella

By Álvaro de Benito

Max Estrella Gallery presents The Life of the Nonliving, the first solo exhibition by Alba Triana (Bogotá, Colombia, 1969) at its space. The Colombian artist’s work is the result of a long-standing dedication to exploring the capacities of sound and its physics, transforming her research into creative languages that bring together science, technology, and art to sublimate the invisibility of everyday forces that sustain the symbiosis between life and matter.

Leyla Cárdenas (Bogotá, Colombia, 1975) brings Posibles bifurcaciones (Possible Bifurcations) to Madrid's Max Estrella, a project consisting of various installations that revolve around the meanings and possibilities of the technique of unraveling. The concept for the exhibition originated during the artist's residency last year in Mallorca and her research into the origins of each of the islands that make up the Balearic archipelago.

Max Estrella in Madrid presents Getsemaní. Prensa de olivo (Getsemaní. Olive Press), the second solo exhibition by Miler Lagos (Bogotá, Colombia, 1973) at the gallery. The show features a series of engravings in which both the techniques used and the material supports become essential elements of the final result.

The Madrid-based Max Estrella exhibits in its Project Room space Escuchando la Lluvia (Listening to the Rain), by artist Glenda León (Havana, Cuba, 1976), which also serves as a letter of introduction of the Cuban artist as the gallery's new representative. This piece of enormous stylization is presented as a blown glass sculpture handcrafted by the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja in Segovia that collects a visual representation of a drop of water falling.