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Having exhibited in leading cultural hubs such as Spain, Finland, Japan, Portugal and the United States, Olaso is renowned for his expressive canvases depicting abstracted still- lifes. Physis marks Olaso’s very first solo exhibition in the UK and seeks to highlight Olaso’s role as a protagonist in the field of abstract art and underline the expressive possibilities of still-life painting.
Physis comprises eleven new mixed- media paintings, showing a colourful array of diverse and abstracted ‘compositions’ of objects, plants and organic shapes. The exhibition takes its name after ‘physis’, an ancient Greek philosophical and scientific term that denotes the principle of growth or change in nature. As an artist who seeks to let his paintings develop organically from the subconscious mind, Olaso understands Physis not only as a reflection of the natural forms in his work, but also as a beautiful metaphor for the evolutionary process behind his painting.
