CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
September 2026
In 2026, Saisho celebrates its tenth anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, our team has brought together ten artists who, each through their own language — painting, sculpture, photography, performance — share the same way of understanding art: revealing something that was not visible at first glance.
These artists were not chosen for their technique or where they come from. They were chosen because, without setting out to do so, they all respond to the same question from which Saisho was born a decade ago: what lies beneath what we see at first glance? A body, a material, an emotion, a legacy, a map — every work in this exhibition conceals something that asks us to look twice.
Ten years after our founding, we still believe that discernment is not an innate talent, but a way of looking that can be trained. In a sense, this exhibition makes that very idea visible: ten artists, ten different ways of teaching us how to see.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
September 2026 – October 2026
Ikella Alonso’s painting revisits art history as a living field of interpretation. Drawing from masters such as Fra Angelico, Giotto, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and Georges de La Tour, the exhibition reimagines historical images of mourning through a contemporary lens.
By incorporating aerial maps of each artist’s place of origin into the structure of his compositions, Alonso turns the genius loci into an active pictorial force. The result is a body of work where memory, territory, and painting’s own legacy converge in a renewed dialogue with the past.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
September 2026 – October 2026
Gemma Alpuente pushes painting beyond the flat surface, allowing color to expand, gain volume, and physically occupy space. Her works exist between painting and sculpture, shaped by controlled processes where chemistry, technique, and intuition determine the final form.
Each piece preserves the trace of a transformation that has been stopped at a precise moment. In the context of 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Stories, Alpuente’s work reveals matter as a record of movement, process, and becoming.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
September 2026 – October 2026
Carlos Blanco’s work explores the tension between deformation and balance: how far a figure can be distorted without disappearing, and how chaotic an image can become without losing structure. Through series such as Neofiguración, Crowds, and Picasso, the exhibition traces more than two decades of research into the body, drawing, matter, and color.
His paintings inhabit an unstable territory between figuration and abstraction, where apparent chaos is always held by rigorous composition. In the context of 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Stories, Blanco’s work reveals a central paradox: sometimes, for an image to emerge fully, it must first be pushed to the edge of disappearance.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
September 2026 – October 2026
Alejandra de la Torre works with everyday objects as material forms of memory. In her practice, what might seem ordinary or insignificant becomes charged with traces of time, affection, and lived experience.
By bringing these objects into the artistic field, she transforms how we look at what usually goes unnoticed. In the context of 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Stories, her work suggests that matter does not simply occupy space: it preserves what we have lived, kept, and struggled to let go.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
September 2026 – October 2026
Alejandra Glez places the female body at the center of a visual investigation where identity, memory, territory, and water become inseparable. In her photographs and performative actions, the body enters the ocean not as a backdrop, but as a force that transforms it—floating, disappearing, emerging, and dissolving its own limits.
Through works such as Danzando con el mar, Oyalokun, and Agua, Glez explores water as origin, refuge, threat, and memory. In the context of 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Stories, her work reveals what lies beneath the surface: the fragile boundary between body, nature, ancestry, and the contemporary world.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
by Manu Muñoz
September 2026 – October 2026
Manu Muñoz’s work traces a path from graffiti and mural painting toward an increasingly refined and symbolic image. Combining oil, enamel, spray, figuration, and abstract gesture, his paintings bring together contemporary, ancestral, and organic references in suspended spaces where narrative remains open.
In Icons of Waiting, his new series for 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Stories, Muñoz works through subtraction: reducing action, context, and detail to concentrate the emotional weight of what remains. Waiting becomes a state of tension and attention, transforming stillness into a way of looking.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
September 2026 – October 2026
Alejandro Pasquale’s work explores the porous boundary between the human body and the natural world. In his paintings, recognizable figures lose their faces beneath branches, leaves, flowers, and organic forms, creating hybrid anatomies where the human and the vegetal become part of the same living structure.
Through a precise treatment of anatomy, texture, light, and natural tones, Pasquale turns the disappearance of the face into a deeper reflection on identity, consciousness, and belonging. In the context of 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Stories, his work reveals that the human body is not a closed frontier, but a space of connection with other forms of life.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
by Irene Pérez
September 2026 – October 2026
Irene Pérez explores the tension between appearance and emotional instability through the human figure. Her characters, often men in suits, project control, confidence, and social success, yet the painting itself begins to unsettle that image.
Through thick layers, superimpositions, and chromatic disruptions, Pérez turns the pictorial surface into a space where fragility and conflict emerge indirectly. In the context of 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Stories, her work reveals what exists between what a figure shows and what painting allows us to see.
10 YEARS. 10 ARTISTS. 10 STORIES.
September 2026 – October 2026
Miguel Piñeiro’s hyperrealist painting begins with objects that usually pass unnoticed: toys, wrappers, bags, packaging, and everyday consumer products. Through meticulous detail, he turns the familiar into something unstable, inviting viewers to look again and question how desire, value, and meaning are constructed.
In the context of 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Stories, Piñeiro’s work moves beyond technical precision to reveal the contradictions behind contemporary visual culture. Behind the shine of a brand, a label, or a museum package lies a deeper question: who decides what we desire, admire, and ultimately consider valuable?
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
THE RESTLESS ORDER
May 2026 – August 2026
The Restless Order presents Adrián Guerrero’s painting as a living system where geometry is not stillness, but tension. Drawing from dynamic symmetry, José Clemente Orozco, and broader modernist ideas of structure, Guerrero transforms geometric order into a field of memory, movement, and affect.
Through the series Dynamic Symmetry and Reacomodos, the exhibition explores how fragments, planes, and spatial relationships can be dismantled and recomposed. The image becomes less a fixed representation than a threshold: a structure that continues to think, shift, and reveal its hidden architectures before the viewer’s gaze.
THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE IMAGE
February 2026 – April 2026
Pablo Álvarez turns landscape into a stage that exposes its own artifice. Skies become backdrops, vistas behave like billboards, and animals hover between portrait and trophy. By invoking the “fourth wall,” the series confronts viewers with the mechanics of looking—image as cultural construction, seen with lucid, critical distance.
THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE IMAGE
by Xavi Ceerre
February 2026 – April 2026
Xavi Ceerre treats painting as a rhythmic system rather than a fixed picture. In Riomar, repetition and serial marks create a vibrating field where “visual noise” organizes perception over time. The work reactivates a primal vocabulary—line, trace, texture—balancing the archaic and the contemporary so the image is felt as pulse, not pose.
CHROMATIC STRUCTURES
by Taher Jaoui
December 2025 – March 2026
Chromatic Structures presents Taher Jaoui’s painting as a system where color stops decorating and starts building the image. On “all-over” surfaces, the artist combines automatism, improvisation, and layered media—oil, enamel, spray, charcoal—to turn apparent chaos into controlled entropy. His lexicon—ovals, grids, X-forms, and symbols—acts like a grammar that distributes weight, opens depth, and sets the reading rhythm.
CHROMATIC STRUCTURES
December 2025 – March 2026
In Chromatic Structures, Rubén Sánchez presents a precise counterpoint to gestural abstraction: color as system and measure. Rooted in muralism and graffiti yet refined with near-architectural rigor, his works organize flat color fields and clean lines into interlocking structures where every shape, tone, and void carries calibrated tension.
THE EVERYDAY, ELEVATED THROUGH FORM
September 2025 – March 2026
Rómulo Celdrán transforms ordinary objects into poetic reflections on perception. Blossoming celebrates the structural beauty of flowers beyond decoration, while Digital Tenebrism reimagines Baroque light through today’s digital glow. Both series explore the tension between nature and technology, inviting us to see the familiar with new eyes.
MATTER, EMBRACED AS AN ACTIVE DISCOURSE
by Jordi Díez
September 2025 – March 2026
Jordi Díez works with the human figure through stainless steel, exploring its expressive and structural potential. His sculpture combines formal tension and technical precision, where each fold of the metal reveals a restrained gesture. The material not only builds the body but becomes an active part of the discourse.
THE BODY, EXPLORED AS AN EMOTIONAL AND DUAL VESSEL
September 2025 – March 2026
Horacio Quiroz reimagines the body as an emotional and symbolic landscape—fragmented, mutable, and resilient. Drawing from his series Goddesses of Spoiled Lands and En Escombros Monolíticos, the artist weaves anatomy, myth, and queer identity into hybrid figures that challenge traditional ideals of beauty and form.
Stones, skin, and ruins coexist in these works as vestiges of trauma, memory, and desire. Through a sculptural approach to painting, Quiroz elevates the incomplete and the wounded, offering a vision of the body as both archive and altar—imperfect, sacred, and always in transformation.
THE EVOLUTION OF NARRATIVE FIGURATION
September 2025 – March 2026
José Luis Serzo constructs theatrical worlds where fiction, memory, and identity collide. Blending painting, sculpture, and drawing, his work unfolds like visual allegories—baroque, ironic, and emotionally charged. Through layers of symbolism and invented characters, Serzo explores desire, contradiction, and the transformative power of narrative.
ELEVATED PAINTING
November 22, 2025 – December 4, 2025
A focused retrospective of Ikella Alonso to mark the official launch of his catalogue—an event conceived less as a conventional show and more as a space for thought and critical dialogue. Featuring contributions from Miguel Cereceda, Fernando Castro Flórez, and Carlos Suárez alongside the artist, the program underscored fifteen years of rigorous pictorial research: a language where form, matter, and memory interlace to create works that are both symbolic refuge and critical testimony.
Across three dedicated rooms, the exhibition is not chronological but architected to reveal the core tensions in Alonso’s practice—geometric and lyrical, material and symbolic, intimate and historical. In an art world often driven by immediacy, Elevated Painting advocates for slow looking and durable conviction, positioning Alonso’s oeuvre as a sustained investigation in which material becomes thought and time becomes form.
THE LEGACY OF ART, REFRAMED IN THE PRESENT
September 2025 – November 2025
In Other Side (The Bridge), Ikella Alonso reimagines iconic images through aerial, cartographic compositions that act as bridges—between past and present, memory and invention. His paintings blend illusion and emotion, creating new ways of seeing rooted in both art history and personal vision.
CHAOS, TRANSLATED INTO HARMONY
September 2025 – November 2025
Carlos Blanco turns painting into a space of introspective stillness, where abstraction becomes a poetic language. Fragmenting images almost to the point of dissolution, his work explores the boundary between the visible and the invisible, evoking a quiet tension that invites contemplation. Between mystery and clarity, his compositions become mirrors of interiority—delicate structures of thought that transform chaos into a deeply personal visual order.
THE OBJECT, AS SYMBOL AND MEMORY
by Paco Díaz
September 2025 – November 2025
In Books, Paco Díaz transforms the spine of a book into a symbolic container of memory and silence. Stripped of text, each form becomes a visual meditation on knowledge, time, and what endures. Geometric compositions and a muted palette evoke shelves, ruins, or imagined landscapes—spaces where memory is stored, lost, or reconfigured.
Bridging abstraction and figuration, Díaz’s works occupy the intersection of art and archive, inviting reflection on what is recorded and what slips away. Through quiet forms, he reveals the lingering presence of forgotten narratives and the enduring weight of cultural memory.
THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, SYMBOLICALLY REORGANIZED
by Manu Muñoz
September 2025 – November 2025
Starting from urban art, Manu Muñoz has developed a free and personal language where chaos and nature coexist. His recent work focuses on stripping elements of their meaning to reorganize them into compositions where chance and order interact without hierarchy, turning the timeless into a compositional core.
EXPANSION
April 2025 – September 2025
In EXPANSION, Ella Baudinet explores the dynamic interplay between opposites—light and darkness, chaos and order, digital and organic. Her large-scale oil paintings, rooted in Apollonian-Dionysian tension, reveal abstract compositions where layered color, atmosphere, and introspection converge. Through quiet mysticism and evolving techniques, Baudinet creates luminous spaces that evoke transformation and inner landscapes in constant motion.
BLOSSOMING & DIGITAL TENEBRISM
March 2025 – September 2025
This exhibition brought together two recent series by Rómulo Celdrán, exploring the tension between nature and technology, light and shadow, precision and mystery.
While Blossoming celebrates the structural intelligence of organic life through mathematically composed floral forms, Digital Tenebrism offers a contemporary reimagining of Baroque chiaroscuro, where the glow of screens replaces candlelight. Together, both series reflect Celdrán’s masterful ability to observe, magnify, and reframe the visible world, inviting viewers to look closer—beyond appearances, into systems, symbols, and silence.
(UN)VEILING AND FLYING IN THE LANDSCAPE OF PAINTING
September 2024 – March 2025
Ikella Alonso weaves abstraction, cartography, and art history into intricate visual topographies that are at once rooted and transcendent. Inspired by aerial views of cities tied to the great masters, his paintings map imagined landscapes where geometry, color, and memory converge. Drawing from minimalist rigor, lyrical abstraction, and a deep engagement with the legacy of painting—from Rothko to Fra Angelico—Alonso creates layered works that reflect a desire to navigate both the mythic and material. His pieces evoke a meditative drift through art’s labyrinth, inviting viewers to trace hidden connections between space, image, and time.
ADDITION
September 2024 – March 2025
In Addition, Iñaki Domingo challenges the conventions of photographic reproduction by intervening directly in the mechanical printing process, replacing inkjet precision with bodily gesture. Using a mouth diffuser and CMYK pigments, he transforms repetition into ritual, producing unique works that blur the line between photography and painting. Engaging with ideas of materiality, performativity, and image simulacra, Domingo explores the instability of authorship and authenticity in the digital age. His abstractions are not mere images, but traces of action—hybrids that meditate on the physicality of creation and the dissolution of the real into visual experience.
FLOATING WORLDS
February 2024 – September 2024
In Floating Worlds, Ikella Alonso embarks on a three-year journey through five centuries of Japanese art, geography, and culture. Inspired by both the sensual landscapes of ukiyo-e and Japan’s island topography, the series of 40 paintings reimagines nature from a bird’s-eye view—where color, geometry, and atmosphere merge into abstract cartographies. A tribute to discovery, distance, and immersion.
POWERFULL
by Taher Jaoui
February 2024 – September 2024
In Powerfull, Taher Jaoui unleashes a chromatic explosion where chaos and structure coexist in constant tension. Fusing urban art, comic aesthetics, and neo-expressionism, his layered canvases burst with gestural energy and saturated color. There are no borders—only spontaneous marks, raw emotion, and underlying order.
Drawing from abstract expressionism, art brut, and even digital glitch, Jaoui creates visual systems where symbols, geometry, and texture form a language of instinct and control. It’s a visceral celebration of painting as both impulse and precision, where color becomes a transformative experience.
PLACE EQUALS PERSON
February 2024 – September 2024
Rooted in the vibrant pulse of his native Spain, Rubén Sánchez merges color, abstraction, and storytelling to explore the human condition through the lens of place. His bold, emblematic works—ranging from paintings to large-scale sculptures—fuse personal emotion with visual rhythm, offering a kind of chromatic therapy that invites introspection.
Drawing from his graffiti roots and post-cubist language, Sánchez transforms anxiety into exuberance, using form and palette as a mirror to our inner worlds. Each work is a landscape of feeling—alive, questioning, and unmistakably his.
LANDSCAPE AS FICTION
February 2024 – September 2024
Antonio Guerra’s work expands the photographic image into the sculptural and spatial, challenging how we perceive and construct the landscape. Blending photography, installation, and object-making, his practice deconstructs traditional visual language to question our passive consumption of images and the fragile boundary between nature, culture, and representation.
Through optical distortions, volumetric surfaces, and material interventions, Guerra reframes the act of looking. His images do not just depict nature—they interrogate it, positioning the landscape as a shifting narrative shaped by human presence and environmental transformation.
DISAPPEARANCE AS MEMORY
by Víctor Manzanal
February 2024 – September 2024
Víctor Manzanal’s sculptures trace the fragile boundary between presence and erasure. Rendered through digital modeling and materialized in resin, his figures seem to appear and vanish at once—bodies in mid-disintegration, shaped by time and entropy. Each piece feels like an imprint of something that once was: a visual residue of change, memory, and transformation.
Informed by dystopian visions and organic processes, his works are less objects than energetic events—moments suspended between becoming and fading. They invite us to consider disappearance not as loss, but as a form of transcendence.
SWEET MALICE
by Otón
February 2024 – September 2024
Otón blends childlike charm with razor-sharp satire. His monochrome drawings, filled with gestural spontaneity and iconic cartoon figures, unravel contradictions between innocence and subversion, humor and critique. Using simple tools—pencil, crayon, pastel—he creates a visual language that feels playful yet provocatively honest.
Through irony and instinct, Otón invites us to unlearn, to see the world through a mischievous lens where mistakes are part of the message and laughter becomes a radical act.
INTERIOR LANDSCAPES
September 2023 – March 2024
In this homage to Matisse, Ikella Alonso shifts from the aerial logic of the map to a vertical composition—transforming the plan into an elevation. Drawing from satellite views of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Matisse’s birthplace, Alonso evokes not just geography but memory, conjuring fractured reflections that recall windows opening toward the sea. These works suggest a poetic reawakening of painting: from blueprint to vision, from distance to intimacy.
ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING
September 2023 – March 2024
Carlos Blanco Artero’s work invites the viewer into a state of perceptual tension, where abstraction and figuration dissolve into a playful, vitalist choreography of color and form.
Drawing from a wide range of influences —from Picabia and Bacon to Mondrian and Vieira da Silva— his painting is not a static image, but a dynamic field where rhythm, sensuality, and the unconscious converge. With a technique that merges lucidity and disruption, Blanco Artero constructs pictorial spaces that seem to pulse from within, offering not answers, but new ways of seeing.
MATTER AND MIMESIS
September 2023 – March 2024
This exhibition presented a selection of early and mid-career works by Rómulo Celdrán, encompassing painting, graphite drawing, and sculpture—three mediums through which the artist explores illusion, perception, and technical mastery.
From hyperrealist drawings of urban interiors to stone and wood sculptures that mimic everyday objects with unsettling precision, the show revealed Celdrán’s ongoing investigation into the limits of materiality and representation. Rather than a display of virtuosity alone, his work invites surprise, irony, and quiet reflection on the nature of art and its capacity to deceive the eye while engaging the mind.
IMPULSE AND PARADOX
by Manu Muñoz
September 2023 – March 2024
Rooted in impulse and contradiction, Manu Muñoz’s work fuses digital precision with gestural freedom, figuration with symbolism. Drawing from his background in graffiti and muralism, his paintings explore archetypes—warriors, dancers, swimmers—through bold color, texture, and scale. Silicon molds, sanded wood, and vibrant, dissonant tones disrupt the surface, turning each piece into a visual and emotional puzzle that resists linear interpretation.
MEDUSA'S RETINA
September 2023 – March 2024
In Medusa’s Retina, Horacio Quiroz fuses mythology, queerness, and material experimentation to explore the body as a site of transformation and resistance. Drawing from pre-Hispanic and Western archetypes, his paintings reinterpret figures like Medusa or Ometéotl through richly layered compositions that oscillate between the visceral and the sacred. With a practice grounded in “anti-painting” — where accidental textures and discarded gestures take center stage — Quiroz builds a visual language that challenges binaries and offers new readings of identity, divinity, and matter itself.
THE REALITY OF EXPERIENCE
by Iñaki Domingo and Jorge Isla
September 2023 – March 2024
In The Reality of Experience, artists Iñaki Domingo and Jorge Isla explore the fragile, ever-shifting nature of images in the digital age. Through reflective surfaces, sculptural forms, and broken screens, they invite the viewer to engage with works that change depending on movement and perspective—highlighting the fleeting, personal, and political dimensions of seeing today.
SMOKE
March 2023 – September 2023
With SMOKE, Rómulo Celdrán turns his technical mastery toward one of the most elusive subjects: the ephemeral movement of smoke. Through a series of large-scale drawings, the artist captures the intangible with astonishing precision, transforming lightness into form and transience into visual architecture.
This body of work explores the poetics of impermanence, where illusion and detail converge. In SMOKE, perception is suspended, inviting viewers into a space between appearance and disappearance—between what is seen and what is imagined.
PICTORIAL INSTINCT
by Xavi Ceerre, Taher Jaoui, and Xavi García
June 2022 – November 2022
This exhibition brought together the works of Xavi Ceerre, Taher Jaoui, and Xavi García in an exhibition that celebrated the raw energy of contemporary painting.
Far from conceptual detachment or formal restraint, this group show explored the emotional and instinctual impulses behind artistic creation —from gestural abstraction and rhythmic composition to the expressive power of color and form. Through different approaches, each artist channeled an urgent, intuitive relationship with the medium, inviting viewers to engage with painting not as image, but as action, decision, and presence.
PLANNED LANDSCAPES
December 2021 – September 2022
In Planned Landscapes, Ikella Alonso pays a dual tribute to painting—through time and place. Merging satellite cartography with painterly tradition, he creates abstract aerial views of the birthplaces of artists he admires, coloring each composition with their distinct palettes.
From Málaga to Rotterdam, from Mondrian’s Amersfoort to Matisse’s Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Alonso constructs homages that are both conceptual and visual. The result is a series that explores the enduring dialogue between geography, memory, and the passage of time in painting.
