If you ever imagined mountains to be red or dreamt of green skies, you’ve already experienced unreal spaces. Guim Tió Zarraluki’s compositions are often dreamlike and expressive, ranging from back portraits to evocative and melancholic landscapes.
Guim creates unnatural places with an air of the uncanny. This is probably connected to the artist's belief that painting keeps a distance from actual events. That's why 'Unreal Spaces' presents a much more romantic vision of the world, diverging from the hyperrealistic trends happening nowadays. We can find the influence of different artists like Friedrich, who created the notion of a landscape full of romantic feeling. However, all of Guim's paintings have a slight punch of tension and mystery that immediately captures the viewer's attention.
Reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s effect on his compositions, even the characters in Guim's paintings seem unreal, and the interplay of colors makes you believe that you recognize those lights, even though you've never seen them before because they didn’t exist.
The composition and bold colors are always balanced by a human figure seen from behind, contemplating the view and offering its own idealized vision. The size of the character reveals the feeling of inferiority in the face of nature, highlighting the weakness of the human being and its lack of control. But in contrast to all of this, there is a sense of freedom for any viewer due to the unreality: nothing is real, but art allows anything to be.
