L21 Barcelona

L21 Gallery is a project that has continued to evolve over the years since it was founded by Óscar Florit in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) in 2012. At that time, the gallery was committed to the representation of emerging national artists and the experimentation with new exhibition formats. 

L21 Gallery is currently an international and hybrid project located at several venues in Mallorca that allows us to freely develop the different aspects of the project: contemporary art gallery, artist residencies and production center (L21 LAB). Since 2022, L21 also has a gallery in Barcelona, ​​L21 Factory, located in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, which houses two exhibition rooms and a digital production and painting workshop dedicated to working closely with the gallery's artists in the production of sculptural works and special editions. 

Represented artists:

Marc Badia, Matthew Feyld, Fátima De Juan, Alejandro Leonhardt, Jordi Ribes, Mira Makai, Hunter Potter, Daisy Dodd-Noble, Richard Woods, Gao Hang, Nat Meade, Théo Viardin, Ben Edmunds, Dasha Shishkin, Joe Cheetham, Mona Broschár, Simon Demeuter, Edu Carrillo, Ian Waelder, Erika Hock, Fabio Viscogliosi, Valerie Krause, Stevie Dix, Geran Knol, Vera Mota, Eunsae Lee

Jaime Hayon's solo exhibition at L21 Barcelona could be defined as an immersive experience. On this walk through Hayon's creative universe, the viewer can discover several rooms that have been personalized to include a wide variety of works, colors and materials that shape the artist's imagination. The body of paintings and sculptures functions as a set without hierarchies, which appeals to our sense of sight and touch due to the diversity of textures. The gallery is transformed into a Hayonesque space so that we can connect directly with the beauty that surrounds us, discover figures from another world and let ourselves be carried away by the softness and elegance of the shapes and colors.    

Hayon moves between design and art fluidly and without prejudice. His gaze is open, observant. The characters we meet on this journey also emanate these qualities: they invite us to avoid judgement, to observe their curious essence between nature, matter, and humanity. Vases with faces, bird-objects or bird-humans, these hybrid and metamorphic characters are part of a coherent whole that transports us beyond reason. The artist seeks to connect the imaginary world with the real one, since the subjects of his works are born precisely from this mixture between what he observes outside and what happens in his own fantasy.

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