Mario Arlati creates paintings which become walls – as he defines them: walls of sunset and sunrise, a portrayal of the bright, sunny atmosphere of the island Ibiza, where he lived. His walls represent the harmony and the symbiosis between man and nature, but also the continual corrosion caused by the sun, the wind and the sea.

Arlati perceives the surface of his walls as “matter that conceals other matter”. Matter exists because of colour, not necessarily qualified by its beauty or its ugliness, neither by its aspiring to be something, but by traits that are acquired by whatever form the subject takes; an active substance that dynamically translates into art and saved by its transformation into a passive matter.