Tercera pérgola (Third Pergola)
- Date
1980 (August)
- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 156 x 251 cm
- Year of entry
- 1988
- Registration number
- AS06921
- Observations
Entry date: 1988 (from the redistribution of the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo [MEAC] collection)
- Credit
Donation from the Exhibition of Young Scholarship Artists 1980, 1981
Alfonso Albacete began his career as a conceptual artist before turning definitively to painting in 1979, following his exhibition En el estudio (In the Studio) at the Egam Gallery. This earned him the recognition of critics and collectors and led to his participation in other shows such as Madrid D. F., which included this work.
"Painting [...] was reborn in a multitude of different forms, and at that moment, I felt irresistibly drawn to all its reincarnations."
His training in the studio of painter Juan Bonafé shaped his interest in subjects such as the artist’s studio, still life and landscape, which he would develop in series throughout his career.
In Tercera Pérgola, he expresses his vision of the landscape as a changing, abstract element, expressed in bright, textured colours. Trained as an architect, using the formula of the painting as a window open to the world, he plays with the pergola’s openwork structure, creating geometric patterns that filter the light (of eastern Spain), transforming the space into a place midway between the real and the imagined.
María Teresa López Flores