The paintings of Pablo Ugartetxea celebrate a specific town, the one where he grew up and lives, but also pay hommage to the artist's freedom to reorganize reality in order to conjure up an inner space within which rhythm, humour and imagination combine in a colourful kaleidoscope.

The use of collage and a mixed technique resting on both photography and painting enables him to present us with the histoty of a place in a subjective and poetic way.
Scattered fragments of a real place, recomposed according to a playful desire to reordain the world.

Dream towns fusing into memories of other towns, loved, glimpsed upon, photographed.

Sensuous intermingling, only driven by the logic of desire and memory.

The collages and the diversity of materials : bits of rope, wood splintings, bits of material or paper, the pulsional reorganisation of urban sapce evoke the fragmentary nature of perception.

They also conjure up a broken, complex temporality. The appearance of the twin towers make us reconsider the way we relate to contemporary urban landscape, or maybe suggest the necessity for art not to yield to the temptation of innocence.

We are presented with an animist universe where the objects seem to be endowed with their own life : they travel, are set in movement, markets turn into boats floating adrift, flying fountains dash across the sky, streets open up and street signs appear, both banal and mysterious.

Casual elements drawn from daily life seem to acquire, after being delocated and pulled away from their natural surroundings, a humourous strangeness.

Erratic compositions  transmuting  matter into pure rhythm and energy,  in an abstract and musical resolution.