We were lucky to catch up with Albert Espona recently and have shared our conversation below.

Albert, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

For many years I have worked as a freelance graphic designer for companies and institutions. About ten years ago, after the global economic crisis, I was looking for a way to reorient my profession and offer new services to my clients. I began to be interested in creative programming as one more tool to use in my designs, but in the end I realized that it had great expressive possibilities and I began to experiment with more personal works.

Albert, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Working as a graphic designer, I started to get interested in creative programming and generative art. I was interested in the ability of programming to generate organic forms and patterns that reproduced some physical laws of nature. By working with light directly on the computer screen I thought it would be interesting if the work also maintained this relationship with light in its appearance and it occurred to me that I could print the work and present it in a backlit light box. Since then, my work has developed experimenting with light, shape and movement, through different digital media such as light boxes, photographic printing, video and more recently nft. I have presented my work in several individual and group exhibitions and in international art fairs. I am represented in Barcelona by Villadelarte Galleries
One of the aspects that I consider most interesting about my works is that they not only function as a painting that can be hung on the wall, but also illuminate the space and mold it with their shapes and colors. For this reason, they are works that can fit into a certain interior design or architecture project and intervene in the space..

Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?

I think NFts are a great opportunity for digital artists. Many of them have seen how their work was finally valued and have obtained significant income from its sale. I believe that the blockchain system offers a series of guarantees for digital art and art in general, such as the registration of authorship and ownership of the work and its traceability, as well as the payment of royalties to artists for the secondary sale of the works. I am not so sure that in the future NFTs will have to be linked to the world of cryptocurrencies. Perhaps a more secure and stable environment could attract new collectors to this type of art.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

In my professional life I have gone through difficult times, I suppose like many other people, but I have always had the conviction that I would get ahead. There is a force that helps to overcome these moments and it lies in the fact of thinking that one has something to communicate, that one has something to tell as an artist, a way of seeing art and life that one wants to transmit to make other people reflect or simply make our lives a little more fulfilling.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.albertespona.art
• Instagram: @albertespona
• Twitter: @albertespona