Alberto Peral. Dancing

Peral incorporates into his language the most radical contributions of classical art in regards to form; he discovers formal essentialism in nature and in culture as manifestations of a cosmic order endowed with intense material sensuality with which he attracts delight and reflection.

Ovoid shapes as a rudimentary symbol, circularity, rotation, the sky-earth axis, light and colour, are fundamental elements with which Peral builds a subtle poetry of the universe and the sense of time-space that unfolds in multiple directions and increases with experience from other places, as he has done through his travels in Mexico, Brazil, Europe, India and Japan.

This exhibition starts with the filming in 16 mm of a number of repertoires by a group performing traditional dances. They are dances whose origin is uncertain even though its structure can be dated to the nineteenth century. The artist is interested in dancing as construction, where the rhythms join together into an internal structure, closed and unitary. The dances have been chosen for their circular structure. The dancers rotate and create shapes that seem like cosmic structures. In fact its initial meaning seems to be a way of communicating with the cosmos, for which reason his vision is a zenithal one. They are not dances for shows, they are for rituals; the spectator does not exist as a spectator. The result relates these forms with both molecular structures and with Baroque domes or Indian tantric diagrams. Peral presents pieces in which the dances are transformed into an expansive diagram, into a nucleus or energy point, into a mantra-yantra, where music, form and dance make up a whole, a generating principle.