"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)