Ana Mas Projects

Ana Mas Projects is a contemporary art gallery born in 2015 and based in Barcelona, in a 70’s industrial building at Santa Eulalia’s neighborhood in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. It also runs a parallel programming in San Juan (Puerto Rico) since that date. The gallery represents a multi-generational roaster of 15 artists, Spanish based and international, of which two thirds are women. 

Their practice explores a wide range of media that reflect the diversity of formal and conceptual discourses and narratives that define our time, supporting their vision in a dialogue with critics and curators, institutions and collectors, to boost the research and development of their body of work. AMP is the result of the accumulated experience from two previous projects, masART gallery (2004-2012) and Maserre gallery (2013-2015).

Represented artists:

Manel Armengol, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Regina Gimenez, Carmen Mariscal, Damaris Pan, Lucía C. Pino, Àngels Ribé, Joaquim Chancho, Quisqueya Henríquez, Xavier Miserachs, Rita Sala, Laercio Redondo, Soledad Sevilla

Michael Lawton (Sheffield, UK, 1980; lives and works in Barcelona) uses abstraction to depict prosaic things like a wall or a desk, or to narrate verbal moments, vivid or speculative; the precise instant when a phosphorescent ash cloud solidified around the city of Pompeii, for example, or the moment our ancestors emerged from the primordial swamp 3.8 billion years ago.

In this first exhibition by the British artist based in Barcelona at Ana Mas Projects gallery, he will present a new series of paintings created especially for the occasion, in which the artist explores a particular reflection inspired by the goddess Enodia, protector of the roads.

Thus, forming the central core of the exhibition, the idea of duplicated paintings that we could see at his last exhibition at La Capella (Barcelona), is deployed in a new approach through a series of eight half-formed paintings that offer a view of a place in a road, as if it were a sequence of frames, inviting us to perceive subtle differences in the darkness, similarly as when we observe the small marks and sparkles in the black leader that precedes any 16 mm film projection. Lawton's characteristic palette of bright and fresh colours gives way on this occasion to works in which colour loses prominence, in favor of a darker, almost monochrome palette. Alongside this group, the exhibition also incorporates a series of vibrant new acrylic paintings. Writing, so characteristic of Lawton's practice, will also be present.