Sintezis

Balta Gallery presents SINTEZIS, an exhibition that brings together for the first time the
works of David Pher (Germany, 1984) and Fernando Gaspar (Portugal, 1966), two artists
who approach painting as a vehicle for emotional expression and a means of accessing
what lies beyond the visible. Through large-scale works, the exhibition invites viewers into a
space where colour, matter and gesture give shape to internal geographies—hovering
between the intimate and the symbolic, between the encrypted and the revealed.
In SINTEZIS, the dialogue between the two artists is neither confrontational nor
complementary, but rather a convergence of expressive, latent and vital energies. Their
practices converge around an understanding of painting not simply as surface or image, but
as a seminal site—a threshold, an emotional passage, a space of becoming.
David Pher, a Berlin-based artist and initially DJ and music producer, brings the logic of
rhythm and improvisation into his painting. His visual language is marked by a bold, high-
voltage palette—industrial tones, fluorescents, acidic pinks and deep blacks—layered with
charcoal markings and gestural signs that suggest a kind of interior script. In his work, colour
operates as both emotional catalyst and symbolic instrument. His compositions pivot
between control and impulse, balancing formal clarity with raw, kinetic energy. There is an
implicit theatricality to his paintings: each canvas becomes a charged stage open to multiple
interpretations, where the political and the personal exist in dynamic, unstable tension.
Fernando Gaspar approaches painting as an exercise in radical introspection. His mature
and refined visual language is built not from colour but from space. Dense patches of colour
arise through a process of breathing between presence and void—an evocation of a
transitory place, “a passage and arrival simultaneously,” as the artist describes it. Gaspar
does not aim to depict, but to evoke. His paintings speak from absence, from the void left by
memory, from the tension between permanence and dissolution. Each series functions as a
kind of abstract map of the intangible: emotional terrains into which the viewer is invited to
project themselves.
Both artists, through distinct visual languages yet shared sensibilities, use painting as a
medium to translate a complex, mutable, and profoundly human interiority. SINTEZIS affirms
the continuing relevance of the pictorial gesture as an act of thought and emotion, a
symbolic space in which the sensitive and the enigmatic take form. Here, colour is not
merely visual matter—it is embodied memory, transformed emotion, a sign of the
unspeakable.