For Antonio Rojas the “the place of dreams” referenced in the title is the port of Tarifa, his native town, which becomes an icon in many of his works, with its lighthouse and its breakwater jutting out into the sea. This enigmatic composition seems to immerse us in the geometry of a dream, for as the artist himself says, “the external outlines of memories are also geometric.”

In his work we find the modelling of Piero della Francesca (1415-1492), the superimposed planes of Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), the exploration of space of Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) and the tricks of visual perception used by René Magritte (1898-1967), but above all a preoccupation with space: “spaces talk”. His work is a constant reflection on boundaries, the horizon, and the journey into the unknown.

The motif of the port is repeated so often in Rojas’s work that it almost seems like a pretext for playing with systems of representation and with the viewer’s perception. On the left we can see a sunlit sea, bounded by the port and a lighthouse looking like a classical obelisk. A double doorway opens in the sea towards another sea, turning the one we were looking at into a wall. The bright light is abruptly cut off, showing us the port at night, rendered geometrically with a succession of triangles. The large dark plane of the sea is reminiscent of the works he produced during his period at the Delfina Studios in London in 1990-1991.

During the nineties he gradually returned to a lighter colour palette and a more figurative style, but always concentrating on the same subject matter, with an emphasis on playing with perception.