Alemany expresses his nonconformist character and spirit of vitality in all his works. For this artist there are no barriers between his personality and his art. He is a tireless traveller who turns every journey, every experience, into a new visual representation. Matter and its modulation are an important part of his creative work, descended from

 Informalism 

Term coined by the French art critic Michel Tapié (under the name of art informel) to define the art movement that covers a whole range of abstract and gestural trends that emerged in Europe in the 1940s in parallel with the development of

 Abstract Expressionism 

This contemporary painting movement emerged within the field of abstraction in the 1940s in the United States, from where it spread worldwide. Rooted in similar premises and postulates as Surrealism, the Abstract Expressionist artists regarded the act of painting as a spontaneous and unconscious activity, a dynamic bodily action divested of any kind of prior planning. The works belonging to this movement are defined by the use of pure, vibrant primary colours that convey a profound sense of freedom. The movement’s main pioneers were, among others, Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) and Hans Hoffman (1880-1966). Leading Spanish exponents of the movement are Esteban Vicente (1903-2001) and José Guerrero (1914-1991), who lived for some time in New York City, where they were in first-hand contact with the many artistic innovations taking place there around that time.

in America. The movement is defined by a non-figurative language that lends a very significant role to the use of materials. The defining moment for Informalismo in Spain was in the 1950s, with a generation of artists whose languages embraced both European Art Informel and American

 Abstract Expressionism 

This contemporary painting movement emerged within the field of abstraction in the 1940s in the United States, from where it spread worldwide. Rooted in similar premises and postulates as Surrealism, the Abstract Expressionist artists regarded the act of painting as a spontaneous and unconscious activity, a dynamic bodily action divested of any kind of prior planning. The works belonging to this movement are defined by the use of pure, vibrant primary colours that convey a profound sense of freedom. The movement’s main pioneers were, among others, Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) and Hans Hoffman (1880-1966). Leading Spanish exponents of the movement are Esteban Vicente (1903-2001) and José Guerrero (1914-1991), who lived for some time in New York City, where they were in first-hand contact with the many artistic innovations taking place there around that time.

. These included, among others, Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012), Josep Guinovart (1927-2007), August Puig (1929-1999), Antonio Saura (1930-1998), Manolo Millares (1926-1972) and Rafael Canogar (1935).

, in which line plays a major role.

The series Morocco is the result of his journey to the Sahara Desert two years before. It does not reproduce specific images but seeks to show the force and the material substance one experiences in such a distinctive natural setting. In this landscape, the presence of figurative elements is reduced to the minimum. The gates of a walled city are presented in the foreground, as if they were keeping watch on that oval shape which seems to hover in the sky on a painted surface thick with impasto executed in a restricted colour range. Objects represented in this landscape — city, desert, oasis — become spaces open to the viewer’s interpretation.

It is a work of an informalist character in which matter, texture and impasto composed of flints, sands and asphaltic emulsions, as in the rest of his output, are the real protagonists.