There is a long tradition of painting the sea from the shore, at a safe distance. Alex Amengual (Mallorca, 1970) works closer in. In Anar a pescar a Cala Figuera, curated by Ana Serra for Sea Hall, the sea is both subject and material: acrylic diluted in seawater drawn from the port is thrown and washed across the paper the way the sea breaks across the rocks of the cala. Then the net does its work. Working nets from the port’s fishermen drag and press the paint, and a photographed net, transposed onto the silkscreen, is printed over each finished sea. The same tool passes three times through these paintings — the fisherman’s instrument, the painter’s, and at last the image itself — for the net is where man and sea meet. Each work is a single cast, a single catch: no two alike.