Manuel Adriá

Born in Barcelona, Spain at the end of the 50’s, it was there that he commenced his artistic career. At one time he collaborated with the legendary artist Salvador Dali. One marvels at the diversity of his canvases, with Cubist and Expressionism influences melded with his own unique vision. Since 1985 he has been, and continues to be, an influence on the local artistic community, a non-compromising vanguard of post-Romanticism.

There is an exponent of postmodernism in his commitment to rigorous innovation, and defending hybridization. Adriá’s work is marked by the deliberate textualized look of his creations often expressed through a personal iconography and with fragmentations and compositions juxtaposed. His style is also seen in the deconstruction and reconstruction of the pictorial field, both in forming the image and on the resources used in the process.

A sample of Adriá’s work is available in Galería UNO in Puerto Vallarta. It is an exhibition which refers to the rebirth of everyday brilliance and magnetism exercised by the conjunction of mysterious and unique situations. Here characters emerge disrupted by a process of metamorphosis, either moving, flying, rolling or simply walking by a casual scenario or a misleading horizontal staircase leading to nowhere. This magical cocktail creates an apparent sense of centrifugal movement that suddenly becomes paralyzed to provoke a fortunate encounter of the viewer and a vibrant, full life.

The work of Manuel Adriá can be found in local collections and around the world as well as in Casa Panorámica’s Mujeres Azules suite. He has also done large murals, both in his native Barcelona, Puerto Vallarta and Mexico City.