Albert Ràfols -Casamada (Barcelona 1923) is without doubt one of the foremost artists working today in Lyrical Abstraction, a style that is of undisputed international importance, in which Ràfols-Casamada stands alongside artists such a Helen Frankenthaler and Richard Diebenkorn, with whom he shares an esprit de finesse Dore Ashton, a refined sensibility and a formal asceticism. His sensibility is also given expression in his poetry and serves in this wide-ranging study by J.f.

Iconography looks at a major period (1990-2003) in Riera i Aragó’s long career and considers the principal motifs—planes, submarines, stelae, the Aral Sea, islands, etc.—that form the alphabet of his artistic idiom.
His work should be seen as an all-embracing account that is connected to the very different languages of astronomy, botany, mathematics and mysticism, amongst other spheres, and which offers the viewer the opportunity to enter a highly individual universe of tremendous lyricism in which reality and fiction no longer oppose each other.

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