Javier Riera

LB 3, Color Landscape

2008

Javier Riera is an installation artist who works with geometrically shaped light projections, struck directly onto vegetation and landscape. He uses photography as a means of documentation and expansion of his installations, without digital manipulation whatsoever. Thus his work is focused on an experience of real intervention related to the space and time of the landscape. Something that approximates to the Land Art proposals. For Riera, “Everything that happens in the landscape could be described and explained in terms of mathematics, physics and geometry, just the same as in the aspects of invisible but quantifiable energy.” Riera finds the relationship between geometry and nature, giving his work a meditative character. He searches for coexistence between his viewers and the landscape modification they are witnessing. His installations aspire to expand the viewer’s perception by pursuing attributes and dimensions that are hidden within their environment. Riera understands geometry as a natural language previous to substance and can establish with it a sort of subtle and revealing resonance. Riera has been making exhibitions in the most well-regarded museums of his country, such as the Museo Reina Sofía (2008), the MUSAC (2016), the DA2 (2013) and the Niemeyer Center (2014). He has also performed numerous interventions in public spaces such as the PHotoEspaña festival (2016) in Madrid, the Prague Light Festival (2016), and the most recent one being held in October 2017 at the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid. This event held more than 6,000 spectators. His work is present in numerous public art collections such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Fundación Princesa de Asturias or the Banco de España Collection.