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resented at ABA Gallery in Palma, Between Horizons marks the second collaboration between the gallery and Olmo Sard, a Mallorcan artist whose practice unfolds in close symbiosis with matter and form. Sard’s work is defined by an acute sensitivity to geometry, weight, and space: the virtue of the right angle, the tension between balance and distortion, the interplay of light and shadow, and the expressive potential of colour. His preferred materials—wood, cardboard, and paper—are contrasted with bold, flat colours that activate planes, surfaces, and forms, creating environments that invite both contemplation and immersion.
This exhibition follows Reset (2020), in which Sard conceived a dynamic playground that questioned established order through movement, diagonals, and urban verticality, inviting visitors to physically interact with the works and participate in the reconfiguration of form. In Between Horizons, rather than a rupture in formal language, we observe an evolution shaped by the artist’s lived reality. The focus shifts toward horizontality, stillness, and natural landscapes, reflecting a more inward moment marked by settlement, pause, and the search for shelter. The title Between Horizons functions as a manifesto for this transition.
Sard’s works continue to be minimal and abstract, constructed through planes of colour and a refined geometric vocabulary. Canvas now joins his habitual materials, bringing its own painterly resonance to the installation. Influenced by pop visual culture, comics, and cinema, Sard’s vivid colours establish a dialogue between two- and three-dimensional forms. In the sculptures, colour enhances tri-dimensionality, activating visual pathways and internal voids; in the wall works, it expands into broad chromatic fields where warm and cool tones intersect, overlap, and occasionally reach a vibrational threshold through complementary contrasts.
