Matiz Gallery

Matiz Gallery We are a contemporary art space in Barcelona, showcasing abstract and process-based practices from Europe and L. America. Founded by Ivonne P.

and Juan Ramírez, Matiz explores art, migration, and cultural reimagination through exhibitions and art.

Green Rammed Earth – SkyspaceAdam Weismann | Claymoon Studio, 2026Currently on view at Matiz Gallery, Barcelona, Green R...
02/06/2026

Green Rammed Earth – Skyspace

Adam Weismann | Claymoon Studio, 2026

Currently on view at Matiz Gallery, Barcelona, Green Rammed Earth – Skyspace is a triptych from a wider series of eleven works exploring the expressive potential of earth as both material and image. Created using the vernacular technique of rammed earth, in which raw clay is compacted into vertical panels, the work reveals subtle strata of green and mineral tones that evoke geological formations, horizons, and abstract landscapes.

Through compression, layering, and natural pigmentation, Weismann foregrounds the material’s direct connection to the earth, allowing texture and colour to carry the visual experience. The work reflects Claymoon’s broader interest in nature, deep time, and the quiet beauty of imperfection.

Within BASPcr, the piece points to how vernacular techniques hold forms of knowledge and continuity through material practice, linking earth not only to construction, but to memory, inhabitation, and collective relation to place.

1230mm x 630mm x 65 mm (x3)

Unfired Clay pannels

by Adam Weismann - Claymoon studio 2026

Juan Ramirez

Composed of six panels in warm red tones of unfired Cornwall clay, the work unfolds as a fractured circular trace spread...
24/04/2026

Composed of six panels in warm red tones of unfired Cornwall clay, the work unfolds as a fractured circular trace spread across a grid. The circle appears not as a fixed geometric form, but as a worn imprint that emphasizes the rawness of the material and its direct relation to the earth. Marks of pressure, abrasion, and sedimentation allow the surface to register the artist’s spontaneous gestures. The work ultimately evokes a topographic fragment or aerial landscape, where the circle gathers this rawness into a form that is at once minimal, elemental and quietly geographical.

Within BASPcr, the work opens a line of inquiry into how vernacular knowledge is carried through material practice. Earth appears here not simply as medium, but as a social and historical substrate that holds memory, gesture, and ways of inhabiting space that precede fixed borders or institutional forms of authorship.

50 × 50 cm (x6)

Unfired Clay pannels

by Adam Weissman - Claymoon studio 2026

One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate

01/04/2026

A glimpse from the opening night of BASPcr Table II – Material Encounter at Matiz Gallery.

An evening of art, materiality, conversation and exchange around the works of Adam Weismann (Claymoon), Alexandre Clanis, Alberto Ruiz Villar and Jordi Artigas.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Barcelona.

Material Encounter begins with process.For BASPcr Table II, Adam Weismann’s work brings clay, compression, carving and s...
24/03/2026

Material Encounter begins with process.

For BASPcr Table II, Adam Weismann’s work brings clay, compression, carving and surface-building into the centre of the exhibition. Moving between contemporary art, vernacular technique and material knowledge, his practice makes visible how matter carries time, labour and transformation.

Adam will be with us in Barcelona for the opening on 27 March 2026, 19:00.

Calle Sant Pere Més Alt 48
Matiz Gallery, Barcelona
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Material Encounter opens at Matiz Gallery on 27 March 2026, 19:00.Bringing together Adam Weismann (Claymoon), Alexandre ...
18/03/2026

Material Encounter opens at Matiz Gallery on 27 March 2026, 19:00.
Bringing together Adam Weismann (Claymoon), Alexandre Clanis, Alberto Ruiz Villar and Jordi Artigas. The exhibition explores matter as surface, process, memory and cultural trace. Through clay, pigment, plaster and gesture, the works open a dialogue between artistic practice, vernacular knowledge and material transformation.
As part of BASPcr, the opening will also include a small curated encounter bringing together voices from art, architecture, design and material culture.

This painting is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. Jordi Artigas structured this composition around two balanced,...
11/02/2026

This painting is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. Jordi Artigas structured this composition around two balanced, rounded gestures — a red stroke and an overlapping black stroke — whose intensity places them firmly in the foreground of the painting. Their curved movement establishes the primary rhythm and visual weight of the composition.

Behind them, additional strokes operate on a secondary plane: a black gesture that partially dissolves into the background, merging with layers of coffee and brown pigments, and a smaller red stroke which, despite its chromatic intensity, recedes spatially due to its scale. This controlled play between foreground and background creates depth without relying on illusionistic space.

The painting is developed on a white-painted canvas, allowing the material layers to remain legible and distinct. The composition is finally unified through symbolic arrow-like marks, which introduce direction, movement, and a sense of internal navigation across the surface.

Artigas’s use of gesture as sign and his restrained symbolic vocabulary places his work in dialogue with Antoni Tàpies and Antonio Saura, while his emphasis on balance, rhythm, and reduction also resonates with modern symbolic abstraction, particularly artists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miró. These references emerge not as citation, but as shared concerns with sign, structure, and compositional clarity.

The emphasis on material process and time-based transformation in Artigas’s work closely aligns with BASPcr’s methodology, where cultural meaning is built gradually through lived processes, accumulated traces, and spatial reading, rather than through instant or illustrative visual statements.

86 X 105 cm

Coffee, inks, acrylic pigments and oil on canvas, wood frame

Painting from Jordi Artigas 2026

This painting is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. Jordi Artigas structured this composition around two balanced,...
06/02/2026

This painting is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. Jordi Artigas structured this composition around two balanced, rounded gestures — a red stroke and an overlapping black stroke — whose intensity places them firmly in the foreground of the painting. Their curved movement establishes the primary rhythm and visual weight of the composition.

Behind them, additional strokes operate on a secondary plane: a black gesture that partially dissolves into the background, merging with layers of coffee and brown pigments, and a smaller red stroke which, despite its chromatic intensity, recedes spatially due to its scale. This controlled play between foreground and background creates depth without relying on illusionistic space.

The painting is developed on a white-painted canvas, allowing the material layers to remain legible and distinct. The composition is finally unified through symbolic arrow-like marks, which introduce direction, movement, and a sense of internal navigation across the surface.

Artigas’s use of gesture as sign and his restrained symbolic vocabulary places his work in dialogue with Antoni Tàpies and Antonio Saura, while his emphasis on balance, rhythm, and reduction also resonates with modern symbolic abstraction, particularly artists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miró. These references emerge not as citation, but as shared concerns with sign, structure, and compositional clarity.

The emphasis on material process and time-based transformation in Artigas’s work closely aligns with BASPcr’s methodology, where cultural meaning is built gradually through lived processes, accumulated traces, and spatial reading, rather than through instant or illustrative visual statements.

86 X 105 cm Mixed media on canvas

This series is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. In this painting, Jordi Artigas focuses on balancing thick black...
04/02/2026

This series is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. In this painting, Jordi Artigas focuses on balancing thick black and red gestural strokes with a field of translucent coffee washes layered over a white canvas. Rather than functioning as colour alone, the coffee acts as a staining and binding material, introducing texture, depth, and a sense of time into the composition.

Artigas’s painting enters into dialogue with Spanish Informalism, particularly the legacy of Antoni Tàpies and Antonio Saura, while also resonating with modernist symbolic abstraction as seen in artists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miró. These references emerge not as quotation, but through Artigas’s use of sign, gesture, and compositional rhythm.

The composition is ultimately brought together through symbolic elements — a flax-yellow cross and dark brown-black directional arrows — which anchor the movement of the painting and reinforce its internal structure. Through this interplay of gesture, material, and symbol, the work achieves a strong sense of architectural balance and visual coherence.

The emphasis on material process and time-based transformation in Artigas’s work closely aligns with BASPcr’s methodology, where cultural meaning is constructed gradually through lived processes, accumulated traces, and spatial reading, rather than through immediate or illustrative visual statements. In this sense, the painting functions as a material record of balance and negotiation — principles that also guide BASPcr’s approach to cultural activation within the neighborhood.

135 X 167 cm

This series is part of our Spring exhibition 2026. Jordi Artigas is a Spanish abstract artist. In this painting, he comb...
31/01/2026

This series is part of our Spring exhibition 2026. Jordi Artigas is a Spanish abstract artist. In this painting, he combines calligraphic, thick black and red gestures on a white canvas. Between these two layers, a central field of coffee-made strokes draws the composition inward, focusing the energy toward the centre.

The painting is finally brought together through elements of symbolic abstraction, such as the X and directional arrows. Jordi refers to this series as Neutral because, although his overall colour palette is wide, here it becomes more sober and “natural.” The large scale of the work (135 × 167 cm) gives the composition authority and weight.

Artigas’s painting also places strong emphasis on architectural balance and material process, which is why coffee plays a central role in his practice.

The emphasis on material process and time-based transformation in Artigas’s work echoes BASPcr’s methodology, where cultural meaning is built gradually through lived processes rather than through instant visual statements.


This Artwork is presented as a diptych composed of unfired clay, sand, and pigment, built through processes of compressi...
30/01/2026

This Artwork is presented as a diptych composed of unfired clay, sand, and pigment, built through processes of compression and layering. Drawing on ancient making traditions and early unfired earth construction, the work foregrounds material density as both structure and memory. Its visible strata evoke weight, pressure, and slow geological transformation, while irregular pockets of softness and texture introduce moments of fragility within mass.

The series reflects on humanity’s earliest relationship with the earth — a quiet meditation on time, ancestry, and the enduring memory held within raw material. Rather than depicting landscape, the work operates as a material record: an accumulation shaped by repetition, touch, and gravity.

Within BASPcr, this work opens a fundamental line of inquiry into how vernacular knowledge organizes itself through material practice. Long before formal authorship, institutions, or borders, earth-based techniques shaped how communities built, inhabited, and recognized themselves. In this sense, Green Rammed Earth Series does not illustrate identity; it reveals the conditions through which collective belonging, continuity, and self-organization become possible.

Adam Weismann & the Claymoon Studio are the latest addition to Matiz Gallery’s portfolio.

1230mm x 630mm x 65 mm (x2)

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