Alea is, with Agon, Mimesis and Ilinx, one of the four types of games defined by Roger Caillois in 1958 in his book Les Jeux et les Hommes: le masque et le vertige (Man, Play and Games).
Specifically, Alea refers to gambles, as dice, when fate plays a primary part, which result is everything but logic and where all the players have exactly the same level of probability in the beginning.
The artist himself talks about painting as something not run by logic: “Painting is in the sensation, in what goes through you just in a biological and physiological way. Painting is as game, an expense without economy, is practicing without expecting a return, is a necessary activity, in a useless way”.
The exhibition will be formed by a series of industrial drawers of the Sixties and by ten amid drawings and oil on canvas.