Sala Parés

Well-established in 1877, Sala Parés is the first art gallery founded in Spain. It has three different spaces in a single building located at heart of the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, where the work of the 35 contemporary artists with whom the gallery works is exhibited. The Gallery usually holds individual exhibitions of its resident artists in three separate display spaces.

As for painting, it has both authors who work from contemporary figuration and realism, as well as others who express themselves in abstraction. There are also some artists from the gallery that focus on sculpture, photography and video art, as well as others who formulate their proposals from hybrid approaches with the intersection of various techniques and disciplines. Besides, Sala Parés organises extraordinary curated exhibitions on specific episodes in the history of Catalan art and on its most renowned historical artists. 

Sala Parés collaborates with museums, cultural institutions, universities, foundations and other international and foreign art galleries. The gallery also organises concerts, guided tours and various cultural activities.

Represented artists:

Carmen Alvar, Dominika Berger, Dis Berlin, Marcos Cárdenas, Toni Catany, Ángel Mateo Charris, Garikoitz Cuevas, Carlos Díaz
Leticia Feduchi, Gorka García Herrera, Rafel Joan, Michael Kenna, Juan Carlos Lázaro, Juan Antonio Mañas, José María Guerrero Medina, Anna Miquel, Carlos Morago, Gloria Muñoz, Marcos Palazzi, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Magí Puig, Alejandro Quincoces, Miguel Rasero, Xavier Rodés, Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta, Josep Segú, Gonzalo Sicre, Brigitte Szenczi, Manuel Velasco, Albert Vidal

After more than a decade without exhibiting his work in Barcelona, Dis Berlin comes back to the city to present his first solo exhibition at Sala Parés. The exhibition will show works from the last few years of the artist’s production. Following the conceptual line of Dis Berlin’s latest exhibitions in Madrid, the exhibition will revolve around the idea of the search for new mysteries that take on different forms, configuring true pictorial enigmas constructed by and for contemplation. 

All of them are grouped under the tension between opposites such as absence-presence or music-silence. This struggle is generated and strengthened by the combination of discordant elements and, as Raúl Eguizábal points out about Dis Berlin’s recent work, it is “a struggle between the sacred and the profane, between the celestial and the telluric, between the spiritual and the sensual. Objects appear with an almost voluptuous fullness, the smoke of volcanoes, clouds and even flowers take on fleshiness and are confronted with lights that seem to conceal a revelation or a promise”. 

About this exhibition project at Sala Parés, Dis Berlin notes: «The exhibition I am displaying in Barcelona is an extension of the exhibitions I have held in recent years under the title “Songs and silences”. Now under the title of Labyrinth of solitudes I continue exploring, searching new mysteries, in regions where poetry, music and silence are still the main protagonists. With slow steps, distilled layer by layer, these paintings have been born, destined not for the gaze but for contemplation».