“Beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrela”

     Conde de Lautréamont

This mythic quote of the surrealist ideology introduces us into the ideal atmosphere to look into Albert Cano’s work. Understanding collage as the possibility to orchestrate casual encounters of a huge magical potential is the background where Albert’s practices take place.

Albert Cano’s work, which usually nocturnal, has something of a ritual. The artist gets abstract figurations inherent to himself helped due to chance and to this prodigious ability to turn a limitation into the genesis of a new world that resembles a magical practice. Collage is one of the greatest ways of playing with chance. Detect, cut, relate, abandon, return, find: between sleep and insomnia Albert Cano officiates encounters, as a nocturnal hypnotized by the shine of the coated paper.