Alejandro Javaloyas

Alejandro Javaloyas (b. 1987, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) is a visual artist based in Toulouse, France. In 2012 he graduated in Film Directing from ESCAC, Escola de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya, a center attached to the UB, Universitat de Barcelona. In addition, in 2021-22 he took an online master's degree in painting with the prestigious London school Turps Banana.

In his abstract practice, Javaloyas reimagines the pictorial surface by manipulating and bending beech plywood. In this way, his canvases warp into convex shapes through the use of the heat-pressing technique. His expanded paintings escape the convention of the flat support that hangs parallel to the wall. The canvas is now an arc that if projected would close as if it were a circle. In fact, this circular motif is also the main pictorial element in his work, manifesting itself in the form of a point, circle, circumference, sphere, ellipse, hole? And precisely this formal leitmotif enters into dialogue with the circularity of the plywood canvas itself, exploring the tension between form and figure, background and surface, positive and negative space, object and wall. Finally, Javaloyas' work explores the philosophical, aesthetic and historical meanings surrounding the sphere as a geometric element, as a symbol, and also as a habitable space (literal and metaphorical), inviting viewers to reflect on its existential and sociological implications.

Alejandro Javaloyas' most notable recent solo exhibition is “Floating Matter”, an ultra-photographic proposal revolving around the idea of a weightless sphere, curated by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta at Can Gelabert, Mallorca, Spain (2023). In April 2024, Javaloyas held an artist residency at LA BIBI gallery, Mallorca, Spain. The body of work developed there was exhibited at the Far de ses Coves Blanques within the OFF Program of CAN Ibiza (2024). In addition, he was recently selected as one of the 10 finalists for the Acquisition Award of the MIAA 2024, Majorcan International Art Awards, and was part of the group exhibition of finalists in Can Balaguer, Mallorca, Spain. Other recent group exhibitions have been “Debut :: Inaugural Open” at &Gallery in Edinburgh, UK (2024), “ART MATTERS 8” at Gallery Biesenbach in Cologne, Germany (2023) and “Catharsis” curated by Julien Delagrange at CAI Gallery in Harelbeke, Belgium (2023).