On this occasion Christa Näher will occupy two different exhibition spaces. In the Gallery’s space a number of her paintings will be displayed, acting as large-scale theatre curtains and hanging banners in which colours, fabrics and sophisticated textures combine to form abstract compositions of great intensity and beauty, as well as symbolic figures and narratives which transport the viewer to an unheard-of theatrical space. Along with the paintings, a floor sculpture which, in a sort of great velvet-covered cushion, represents layers and movements in which narrative becomes form. Meanwhile, the space that the exhibition will be occupying in the headquarters of the Fernando de Castro Foundation, will be displaying a series of oil paintings of figures of horses and a number of symbolist landscapes.

In short, Näher’s painting is built up on the basis of superimposing layers which end up being the representation of different stages in an imagined reality. On occasions those layers constitute a light surface over which the masses of colour flow with fluidity and volatility, while in other works each layer makes up one episode in the narrative tale: reality and dreaming paint an oneiric world which reveals abstract landscapes, variations in light, dances of death, mysterious figures, trees, fruits, Medieval adornments and ornaments. All as pseudo-hallucinated visions of a cosmos in the exquisite representation of a complex universe.

Each painting acquires unique aesthetic proportions. As in Baroque tradition, their representation is not merely descriptive but also narrative and symbolic: unpredictable impulses, wild natures and the unsettling relationship of human beings with nature, all of which are represented in her figurative and equestrian compositions, as well as in her simultaneously light and dark abstract surfaces. This means that the works are not solely ornamental pictorial objects or resources put at the service of an allegorical discourse, but tormented depictions of a redeemed spirit.