Riera i Arago’s work offers the spectator the opportunity to enter a language that is not coded, cryptic or private, but which is ambivalently related to other languages, some of them specific, such as archaeology, botany, mathematics or astronomy, while others are metaphysical, such as poetry, religion or mysticism. A personal language composed of various fragments linked by concrete forms, those of the artwork, which is itself the gateway to an entire universe waiting to be explored, to a map which, far from being an illusion, reveals itself to be strangely tangible.
I conography looks at the sculpture produced by Riera i Arago during a major period (1990-2003) of his long career and considers the principal motifs--planes, submarines, stelae, arals, islands, etc.--that form the alphabet of his artistic idiom.
Riera i Arago’s work offers the spectator the opportunity to enter a language that is not coded, cryptic or private, but which is ambivalently related to other languages, some of them specific, such as archaeology, botany, mathematics or astronomy, while others are metaphysical, such as poetry, religion or mysticism. A personal language composed of various fragments linked by concrete forms, those of the artwork, which is itself the gateway to an entire universe waiting to be explored, to a map which, far from being an illusion, reveals itself to be strangely tangible.