Presagio :: Alberto Sanchez
31 Oct - 28 Nov 2015
Gallery Upstairs
Alberto Sanchez’s work sets out to alter and re-imagine our perception of the landscape, whether urban or natural, exploring the boundaries between painting and photography in search of a reality unconstrained by space or time.
Using hands-on methods like mark-making, colour and texture to manipulate and subvert context, he creates a symbiosis, a hybrid between the ‘real’ photographic document and the imagined landscape, releasing characters and elements from their documented constraints, allowing them to roam and co-exist in a new reality that is neither here nor there.
Alberto Sanchez was born in Aranda de Duero, Spain – an area surrounded by medieval castles and Roman squares. Moving to Australia twelve years ago allowed Alberto to reflect on the importance and influence that place and time have on identity.
He currently resides in the Byron Shire but tends to spend a lot of time travelling nationally and internationally capturing new landscapes for his future work and exhibiting throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. Alberto has received multiple awards and commendations including - finalist in the Bowness Prize and Wilson Visual Arts award in 2013 - two time finalist in the Olive Cotton Portrait Award and multiple awards through the AIPP.
