La Pell Amagada (hidden skin)
Enrique Barro & Zlatan Hadžifejzović
Catalogue of the exhibition
14 Nov — 4 Dec
La Pell Amagada (Hidden Skin) brings together the visionary work of Enrique Barro and Zlatan Hadžifejzović in a shared exploration of deconstruction and transformation. Their practices defy conventional object functionality, focusing instead on the underlying essence and poetic ambiguity of form. Both artists create pieces that invite the viewer into a dialogue of introspection and reinterpretation, revealing the subtleties beneath each layer of their work.
Enrique Barro’s art challenges traditional structures and academic conventions, embracing spontaneity and chance as catalysts for creativity. His works often originate from unanticipated encounters with materials—such as tar, oil stains, or ink blots—which he transforms into compositions that evoke cryptic narratives. In his practice, pencil shavings, colored sawdust, and broken graphite become intricate textures that encourage viewers to decode their meaning through both personal reflection and the passage of time.
Barro’s works resonate with an underlying tension between word and image, inviting viewers to navigate what remains unsaid, encapsulated in visual forms that push the limits of plastic arts. His titles mirror this complexity, guiding the viewer through a nuanced journey between language and vision.
Enrique studied sculpture at Escola Massana in Barcelona and has worked alongside renowned artists, including Peter Haines in Boston and Xavier Corberó in Esplugues de Llobregat. He held his first exhibition in Barcelona with Ignacio de Lassaletta and has since earned a scholarship from AMEXCID (Mexico). His work is part of numerous private collections and foundations, such as DKV and the Vilacasas Foundation.
Zlatan Hadžifejzović Born in 1992 in the former Yugoslavia, Zlatan Hadžifejzović completed his master’s degree in sculpture at The Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts and now resides in Cadaqués, Spain. An interdisciplinary artist, Zlatan’s work recontextualizes everyday objects, drawing inspiration from conceptual art to explore new dimensions and reinterpret the familiar. The elements or materials used in Zlatan's work acquires another meaning of its origins or functionality, when intervened and modified it amplifies its potential. This interventions to objects or spaces are making distance from the real purpose that moves it towards the unconventional as a metaphor, even as hommage to itself.
This exhibition encompasses the latest compositions of Zlatan's practice. The process of this works manifests aspects of patience, precision and high concentration. Made by hand adhesive tape tubes, filled with spices, are partially transparent and the translucent materials allows light to pass through the pieces glowingly, lending the composite artwork a calming and spiritual quality. Fragility is an unavoidable aspect to this process, in another dimension the shapes of tape tubes becomes spaces, "My spaces are fragile: time is going to wear them away, to destroy them”, George Perec.
