Ignasi Aballí's most recent work is clearly concerned with apprehending the essence of light itself and with the incorporation of this inapprehensible substance into the plastic representation of the sensory. In his search for a pictorial language, his mistrust of the act of painting and the validity of pure painting have led him progressively to adopt certain raw materials. Since 1988, he has been using raw industrial materials as a substitute for traditional pigments, practicing a very singular type of material painting. The media he uses include iron (in sheets and reduced to powder), charcoal