"(...) serious artwork, unworried about being in fashion, that addresses ways of living and human existence, which is what endures. Painted calmly, quietly, with an horizontality that ascends, because it has density, tension and balance, it has history, it smells of existence, in all its representations…"
El Punto de las Artes .28 de febrero de 2004
“Álvarez's images are clear and subtle. The final effect is ruthless, dramatic and refined at the same time. Sometimes the paintings consist of poetic outpourings..."
Roos van Put. Catálogo Exposición Schröder 1998-99
"When many are in charge of looking for absurd identities in the absolute, Rosendo Álvarez situates us within the schematic of a modern figuration where everything is susceptible to multiple interpretations. Complicit glances pass through his canvases, the true dream of the impossible, the perfect meassure of a beautifully interpreted doubt.”
Bernardo Palomo. Catálogo Exposición Schröder 2004
“Malevich, Chirico and Julio González come along with self-appointed Rosendo, summoned by way of knowledge, not by the easier way of the comforting icon nor by the pretence of a simple cultural reference. . (...) His way is guerrilla warfare of uncertainty against the unbearable absolute power of the means of producing meaning.
Floors, walls, furniture and emblems assail the consciousness of the viewer who can no longer escape: he is spellbound because (nothing can be done to stop it) the machinery of analogies, doubts and associations has been set in motion.
Alberto González-Alegre. Catálogo Exposición Metta 2008
“(...) something attracts us, makes us stay, invites us to explore with new eyes. Suffocating perfection is interrupted by the ingenious and subtle enigmas that distinguish Rosendo's paintings from better living catalogues. Taking advantage of our instinctive anthropomorphism, Rosendo presents us with dramatic scenes played out by furniture.”
Cary Barney. Los interiores incómodos de Rosendo Álvarez. 2022
“(…) the artist composes cold and hard objects with the intention of making an impact. What remains is the icy cold: the painted interior of the hardened modern man, who has built a perfect little world around himself, to which nothing and no one can be added."
(Roos van Put, Haagsche Courant. 6th of April of 1991)