Contemporary Art Gallery

ASSAI Gallery, on the Costa Brava, is a contemporary art space founded by a Parisian dedicated to reconnecting people with the emotional power of art. The gallery showcases local and international artists emerging and established. Each work carefully selected for its quality and integrity.

Materia Sensible

Materia Sensible

04.07 – 04.08 ⁄ 2025

There are materials that refuse to be con ned to canvas or reduced to technique. It is these unruly, expressive forces that the four artists in this exhibition celebrate. Sensitive Matter is a journey — an exploration of what painting can be when it becomes organic, instinctive, and vulnerably alive. It is a hymn to gestures that speak without words, to worlds that tremble beneath the brush, to matter itself when it becomes language.

From Barcelona, artist Germán Bel makes textures sing. Each layer is a trace, each stroke an echo of chaos mastered, each work a window into a world shaped by both nature and asphalt.
Facing him, a young Chinese painter sketches dreamlike landscapes on delicate calligraphy paper. After a period of politically engaged video art, SuJing has chosen softness — not out of naïveté, but with intent. Her owers carry the modesty of silence and the wisdom of owing water. Based in Paris for decades, artist Danhôo makes colors dance like an incantation. Bold, inspired, and free, his gestures blend the legacy of ancient Chinese calligraphy with the energy of Western action painting. Where others paint forms, he inscribes forces.

And a Mediterranean voice rises: that of a French artist rooted on the Costa Brava. With abstract monotypes, almost whispered, she captures the breath of the open sea, the shadows of coastal rocks, and the tenderness of golden light. Nothing is fixed; everything is suspended.

Sensitive Matter is an invitation to experience art not as concept, but as something felt — a tactile language of the soul. An open dialogue between East and West, between gestures and origins.

Assai Gallery – Su Jing, Germán bel
Germán Bel, detail
Su Jing, detail
Assai Gallery – Germán Bel, Danhôo