Ángel Mateo Charris

Cartagena, 1962

The work of Ángel Mateo Charris has always been linked to the idea of travel. His viewpoint is that of an explorer who moves through history and the present with the spirit ready to surprise, sometimes joining impossible points of view, combining images and concepts to achieve strange but at the same time familiar compositions. He has traveled through the Pacific, Southeast Asia, America and, of course, Europe following in the footsteps of his referents and also looking for new interests. Through a figuration of clear lines and bright colors, the painter shapes images conceived as a collage of sources and contents, sometimes opposed, where he plays with the connections between reality and fantasy through pictorial language.

Narrativity is a key element in his compositions. It appears sometimes subtly and sometimes in a much more explicit way. The curator and writer Selma d’Acosta speaks of his work in the following way: “his canvases have something cinematographic, like a stopped instant. They place us in the middle of a story that we do not know and must imagine”. He shares this quality with the American realist Edward Hopper, an important reference for our painter.

Ángel Mateo Charris is an established artist with a career that has led him to exhibit in galleries, fairs and museums around the world. His work appears in important collections, museums and foundations. He has been exhibiting at Sala Parés since 2015.