L Contemporary is pleased to announce Flores Raras, a new exhibition by artist Nacho Tusquets (Barcelona, 1983), on view from 21 November 2025 to 2 January 2026. The show brings together a recent series of paintings made with acrylic enamel, synthetic paint, and touches of oil, in which the artist continues to explore gesture, color, and the expressive force of the painted image.
In Flores Raras, Tusquets begins with the universal symbol of the flower—traditionally linked to beauty, delicacy, and the decorative. His aim is to break away from that notion, pushing the motif toward a more primitive, psychedelic, and personal territory. The flowers depicted here are anything but polite: they pulse, burst, and at times seem to shout, searching for an aesthetic that is alternately festive and fiercely energetic.
The combination of acrylic and synthetic enamel creates a vibrant, glossy surface, while the subtle use of oil introduces moments of depth and contrast. Gesture plays a central role throughout the series: splashes, strokes, and free-form marks shape compositions that hover between figuration and abstraction, suggesting flowers caught in perpetual transformation.
Tusquets often recalls that, during his studies, a professor once told him that his flowers “had character”—that they resisted cliché. This exhibition expands on that early intuition and carries it forward: Flores Raras proposes an untamed, exuberant, and surprising floral universe that challenges the viewer’s expectations and reaffirms painting as an act of energy and presence.
With this exhibition, L Contemporary presents a body of work that celebrates the pleasure of painting and the power of color, while offering a radically contemporary approach to a timeless motif.
