Photos: Sergio Betancort
"It smells like the sea, it smells like life," this verse from one of Alfonso Valls' poems could well summarize the essence of the new exhibition that the Lanzarote painter has just inaugurated at La Casa de la Cultura de Teguise. Twelve watercolors and as many poems inspired by Famara beach and the town of La Caleta, where Valls has spent summers since his childhood, make up the exhibition that can be visited during this month of December.
The streets of La Caleta, the pier, the church, the landscapes of Famara, its changing colors with the hours of the day, the summer light are captured in Valls' watercolors, and the author shows that same reality in the twelve poems that accompany each of the paintings.
Alfonso Valls Cabrera studied Architecture at the Universities of Las Palmas and Barcelona, however, the weakness he has felt for painting since he was little has led him to develop an artistic career as a painter. He has participated in various collective exhibitions, in the Lanzarote Art Biennial and has exhibited his work on two occasions at the Santo Domingo Convent in Teguise.
Valls' new work could well be a tribute to the sea, to that town where he spent his childhood summers, whose landscapes and experiences can be seen in his work and overflow in his poems of an intimate nature, "Boats on the beach. Fresh summer breeze. I remember you without shoes." Some sensations that the artist shares and conveys through this exhibition, curated by the Culture area of Teguise coordinated by Olivia Duque.
