Eduard Resbier has a thorough knowledge of drawing and painting techniques, which he has deployed since his earliest solo exhibitions in the 1990s to present imagery featuring landscapes and scenes that place the observer at an ambiguous, indeterminate point in time. Blurred shapes, faded contours, saturated colours, plays of light and distortions affecting the perception of his images are all typical traits in his work.

He builds up a constellation of visual registers that serve to analyse the reality around us, in works with a degree of technical resolution that gives the impression of preliminary sketches, unfinished studies and work in progress. The stillness and form of these images takes us towards historical descriptions of the sublime. In many ways, Resbier explores reality as if it were a scientific journey undertaken not just to study unexplored locations and natural species (after the fashion of 19th century naturalists) but also to question the objectivity of the images presented. He does this in Nature-Structure (1993), a series of sketches drawn mainly in ink and gouache on paper. The main motif in these works are skies and cloud formations, surfaces that seem to be covered in sand and close-ups of the sea, all places where there is no single, certain point of reference.

Since 2008 Eduard Resbier has been showing his work regularly at the Trama Gallery in Barcelona. He has also staged solo exhibitions at the Midnight Sun Gallery (Morges, Switzerland, 2013), the Fabrice Galvani Gallery (Toulouse, France, 2011), the Caja Burgos Art Centre (Burgos, 2010) and the Espacio ET (Barcelona, 2009).

Beatriz Herráez