With the heading The cities I love Malvehy is celebrating his extensive trajectory by sharing with the Rusiñol Gallery the most symbolic places of his career.
This means thirty five solid years of continuous artistic recognition: Bronze Medal in Sitges; special mention in Avignon; silver medals in Evian and Arles; first price in Aix-en- Provence... He has exhibited in Barcelona, Gerona, Tarragona, Madrid and Seville, amongst others.
All the paintings, consciously or unconsciously, reveal the artist's intimacy. If we should appraise Malvehy's personality from his work, we could establish without running any risks that he is a pensive and very orderly person. The mere act of looking at anyone of his works allows us to enjoy a definite feeling of tranquility.
Sound and well structured, his landscapes are meticulously detailed. Representations of places like Amsterdam, Cadaques, Majorca, Ibiza or Venice coincide in the luminousness of their skies and in the symmetry of their composition. And how he treats the elements, by combining perfect spheres with vertical lines, brings about certain cubist reminiscences.
Last but not least colour, that great helper, which shapes up his pure vision so eager for blur and pastel tones, suggests an ideal world: a perfect moment where light, composition and colour serenely mix together. Another aspect of his land and seascapes to be emphasized is the almost permanent nonappearance of any persons. In some oils, sporadically, they may appear as part of the arrangement. But they do it as motionless, lifeless shapes, as if their only purpose would be to produce a stronger feeling of composition.
His still lives are quite unique. He tends to verticality and has a weakness for a multiplicity of volume variation which he spreads out rhythmically. He also paints the Human Figure, but he is always faithful to that dreamlike resolve for unique moments.
The art critic and reporter J.M Cadena synthesizes Malvehy's philosophy with these words: The stormy passions remain far away because the sage's ataraxia prevails as it knows how to look far beyond the spirit which will imbue all that now is just substance.
Bibliography: "Pintors I" J.M Cadena; F.Galí; Joan Iriarte."
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