Regarded as one of the greatest exponents of , Alemany’s early practice ought to be ascribed to gestural abstraction with a surrealist leaning, further marked by an inclination towards capturing volumes redolent of his training as a sculptor. His later production focused on hyperrealism and more specifically on the depiction of urban views.

That is the subject matter prevailing in his oil paintings and also in his graphic works, representing cities in a sublime way from which he sometimes eliminates all human figures to concentrate instead on architecture. Nonetheless the architecture is removed from reality and not the result of the observation of the artist’s surrounding but rather of his experimentation and his fantasy, as if what he is depicting were a utopian city.

In this work Alemany paints an urban landscape, casting a magical gaze that shows the beholder a city half-way between real and dreamlike. He spares no details in the depiction of each balcony, window, moulding, chimney, shop window, ornament, streetlamp, sunshade or poster, thus adding a sense of reality to this imaginary corner. Several vehicles and some barely perceptible passers-by give a certain sense of life and movement to the place. The cloud of dust the artist has placed in the background of the scene gives the city an almost ghostly quality.