.png)
Five Unfinished Platonic Love Encounters
"Five Unfinished Platonic Love Encounters" is the new collection of works by Nacho Frades inspired by the unique feeling of remembering when you met someone special in the past. All five works feature two chairs placed in empty, colourful settings reminiscent of hot, gleeful nights you may have spent in the Summer.
"The chairs are painted by Frades as if they were remains, evidence of encounters between two people we cannot see. The city where the meetings took place is as silent as in Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical works, mysterious and inviting at the same time. Frades’ paintings show pockets in time and space where the romantic encounters have been interrupted, maybe because of the two lovers or for external, unknown reasons. The arrangements of the chairs let us imagine the conversations and postures of the people who used and then abandoned them.
The surrounding environments are just hinted at, often contradicting the linear perspective suggested by the chairs, as if they were shaped by memory. What we see is the mental representation of five amorous encounters by the people who have participated in them and who now can do nothing but remember them, in silence, absorbed in those unique moments when nothing else seemed to matter."
(Filippo Lorenzin, Curator)
Location
Curator
Filippo Lorenzin
Partners
SuperRare
SuperRare
"Five Unfinished Platonic Love Encounters" is the new collection of works by Nacho Frades inspired by the unique feeling of remembering when you met someone special in the past. All five works feature two chairs placed in empty, colourful settings reminiscent of hot, gleeful nights you may have spent in the Summer.
"The chairs are painted by Frades as if they were remains, evidence of encounters between two people we cannot see. The city where the meetings took place is as silent as in Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical works, mysterious and inviting at the same time. Frades’ paintings show pockets in time and space where the romantic encounters have been interrupted, maybe because of the two lovers or for external, unknown reasons. The arrangements of the chairs let us imagine the conversations and postures of the people who used and then abandoned them.
The surrounding environments are just hinted at, often contradicting the linear perspective suggested by the chairs, as if they were shaped by memory. What we see is the mental representation of five amorous encounters by the people who have participated in them and who now can do nothing but remember them, in silence, absorbed in those unique moments when nothing else seemed to matter."
(Filippo Lorenzin, Curator)
Location
Curator
Filippo Lorenzin
Partners
SuperRare
SuperRare
Artists
The chairs are painted as if they were remains, evidence of encounters between two people we cannot see. The open window casts a bright, vibrant light that makes the chairs and the table look liquid, as if they can be carried out of the picture by an invisible water stream.
2022
Digital Painting
Frades’ painting shows a pocket in time and space where a romantic encounter has been interrupted, maybe because of the two lovers or for external, unknown reasons. The scene, set in a room paved with blue and white tiles, feels intimate, private, as if we shouldn’t be allowed to see it.
2022
Digital Painting
The arrangements of the chairs let us imagine the conversations and postures of the people who used and then abandoned them. The table’s presence provides more information about the placement of the chairs in an otherwise completely neutral space. The shadows casted by an unseen source of light is the only clue about the environment surrounding the chairs and the table.
2022
Digital Painting
In “Love”, the chairs are placed in front of a water pool lit by a full moon. The low angle perspective lets us see underneath the chairs, a corner of reality usually ignored or taken for granted.
2022
Digital Painting
Artworks
Sign up to our Newsletter
Hear about activities, events and exhibitions from MoCDA.