Cantabella
MURCIA
Title: “Under the sun of Gaudí”.
Technique: Acrylic on canvas.
Inspiration
“I always paint with acrylics, this time too. If you use a lot of water they can look like watercolor and with a binder they can look like oils. Their versatility and drying time allow me to create more quickly.
For this spectacular dress by designer Manuel Fernández I have been inspired by love and nature through my series entitled “TNT. Games in Tokyo”, where I show a Tintin, free from his author Hergé and going on his own adventures, only this time erotic. He finally becomes an adult and calls himself TNT, as a reference to dynamite. To get to this point, I went through the history of painting and came to the conclusion that the black line in comics is comes from the black line in Japanese engraving, as well as the different inks that go with it. It is the so-called japonisme that reminds us of the French poster art of the beginning of the 20th century. I suggest a communion, a marriage between East and West through these scenes and characters, and it helps me see, once again, the conflict we have with what was and continues to be sacred in other times and other cultures.
The scene shows a couple locked in a passionate embrace under some trees, a radiant sun illuminates everything and a bird flies and sings next to them. The yellow and pink tones evoke the afternoon light and everything seems to glow in a haven of peace and love. The name “Gaudí” gravitates over the pair of lovers as a tribute to the light and nature that the architect from Ruidoms loved so much”
Work
BIO
Since 2002, Carmen Molina Cantabella has participated in 47 individual exhibitions in contemporary art galleries and museums. She has also participated in group exhibitions in most of Spain’s provinces.
We would highlight four exhibitions in Madrid (Kreisler gallery) and exhibitions in Schiedam (Rotterdam), Querétaro (Mexico), Kaunas (Lithuania), Bilbao, Cáceres, Cartagena, Jaén, Málaga, Murcia, Santander and Valencia. Her work can be found in contemporary art collections, foundations in Spain and Mexico, and in eleven Spanish city councils. She has received 22 awards for painting and sculpture in Spain, including the Bancaja Prize in 2006 and the Pancho Cossío Prize in 2007.
Her work applies distortion in an attempt to ironically show social and political sub-realities. Her project consists in documenting and bringing to light the deficiencies of our time. The conflict between the private and the public is often present in her works, with nudity, history, childhood or violence serving as an argument for reflection. His compositions are always based on classical platforms, on an iconography that she constantly revises and updates, a judgement on modernity, sometimes through pop-art or symbolic naturalism.
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