The artist Joan Miró stated in his famous writing "I work like a gardener" that as a painter he kept his feet on the ground, from where he harnessed energy later to be expanded into the universe. On the contrary, the other universal Catalonian surrealist penned that for painting he had both feet on the ground, from where they were rooted in tradition. The artist, painter, sketcher, engraver and potter Vallpalou comes from Catalonian soil as well, from the Mediterranean, a thousand-year-old culture in which harmony is polarized: from the mathematics and poetry of Miró to the mythology and narrative quality of Dali; from the macro universe to the micro nanotechnological one; from gesture to detail; from the flat Romanesque painting to transparencies.  Visually speaking the aesthetic poetics of our painter is not in the slightest bit connected to that of those universal Catalonians. But the distance of her work when seen from the Thread Gallery in Beijing helps us to see the dryness of an inland Mediterranean, the expressive fight for air and light, the commitment to grow  from the depths of  existence  a visual reality which is personal and shared with the informalist European painters of her generation. In the art of Teresa Vallpalou the lack of signs requests from the art lover an inspiration higher than that of the comfortable life of the easy language of communication. The difficulty of her work lies at the heart of her expression.

Vicenç Altaió
Writer and Ideas Dealer.