Invisible is the third solo exhibition by Chilean artist Rolankay. It features 19 large and medium-sized paintings that the artist created following his visit to Europe earlier this year, where he had the opportunity to confront his artistic referents live for the first time and to engage in a dialogue with the works of the great masters of painting of all time.
Rolankay burst onto the Chilean and international scene with his debut exhibition Supersticiones, presented by Isabel Croxatto Galería in 2022. This exhibition earned him five editorials from Artsy, the world's most important international platform for contemporary art, praising his unique imagery and virtuosity as a colourist, and his work was noticed by specialised media and entered collections in Chile, Australia, South Korea, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil.
The international success of Supersticiones contributed to Rolankay being invited to present a solo exhibition in London in April 2023. On his first trip outside Chile, Rolankay spent three months in Europe, visiting various museums in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Madrid, and seeing for the first time live the works of the great masters who had fascinated him in the books with which he trained as a self-taught artist. The works presented in Invisible are an account of this journey.
Rolankay's imaginary, which blends syncretic elements of the culture of the Atacama Desert, where he was born and raised, begins to adopt elements of the mythology that gives rise to the Western canon in a temporal and chronological journey that goes from Fauvism and Post-Impressionism to the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism, returning to the present and an invisible future with colour, light and form, as well as the sacred, the erotic and the psychological.
