“Com un teló suspès a la branca d’un arbre” by Bruno Ollé at Can Manyé

From May 24 to July 7, Can Manyé in Alella will host “Com un teló suspès a la branca d’un arbre” (Like a Curtain Hanging from a Tree Branch), a solo exhibition by Alella-born artist Bruno Ollé.

With an extensive trajectory and growing international presence, Ollé has shown his work at major art centers, galleries, and fairs across Spain, Belgium, France, the UK, the US, Italy, and Germany. His exhibitions include Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Fundació Suñol, and La Casa Encendida, among others. His work is also part of significant public and private collections, such as Fundació Vila Casas, Olor Visual, the Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan Collection, and the Jan Koum Collection.

This exhibition marks a turning point in Ollé’s practice. While maintaining his signature elements—expressive use of color, a tactile approach to painting, diverse materials, sculptural gestures, and spatial installations—it reflects a deeper shift. It is a phase defined by openness, doubt, and multiplicity, where nothing is fixed and everything remains in motion: a tension between presence and absence, seen and unseen, play and process.

“If it were matter, what kind? If it were a game, by what rules? A scattering of shapes that resists certainty. But there’s a curtain, and the inside and the outside, the here and the there—they all peer out. There’s a branch, and fragility, the balance of two half moons. Everything appears. A swing, a puzzle, a nest, an escape. Every piece suggests a story, but it doesn’t want to be a stage. A studio outside the studio—perhaps. A pocket full of treasures, sketches, notes, findings. Like smoke, like invitation. A passage opened by a curtain hung from a tree branch—where looking in both directions becomes a way to stay suspended, in a space where nothing ends, nothing begins, and everything invites.”
-Queralt Morros Baró

This project invites the viewer into a space of uncertainty, where fragments, gestures, and materials collide into something both intimate and expansive. It’s not a conclusive statement, but rather an open field of questions.