From humanity’s origin, human beings have always wondered about the meaning of life. The wish of getting more transcendental knowledge is inherent in our species. The universe is the big unknown. We just have got to know about a tiny fraction of its entirety and its shadows are what most attract us.
In the search for this mystery works the artist Sol Sánchez (Cáceres, Spain, 1956), whose paintings are framed in the abstract expressionism and cause the feeling of being interrogated in the observer. The observer is required to think on this mystery, a mystery investigated during centuries by the art world; especially when the artists abandoned figurativism to go into the area of abstraction, which usually coincides with the spiritual one. Sanchez’s itinerary has been the same one. She makes the painting to explode on the canvas or the panel in an exacerbated informalism of huge matter condensation.
Knotted splatters cross the canvas as stretched arteries, an effect obtained by spreading the acrylic with a palette knife. Her work is not comfortable; it looks for and requires a reaction from the spectator. Anything in such a way the observer doesn’t remain unaffected by the painting. Reddish, blue and purple colours abound together with the more greenish and ochre ranges, like the ones we find in nature, which usually appears as the main theme of her abstraction. Several times veiled presences can be found, and they are appreciated in those artworks that are kept closer to that most tangible reality a landscape can offer, for example.
Sánchez is founder and president of the non-profit association The Cavern Art, whose main goal is to give support, promote and spread multidisciplinary contemporary art through the realization of exhibitions.
She has exhibited her works in several spaces as the cultural centre of Las Claras in Plasencia, the Pérez Comendador-Leroux Museum in Hervás (Cáceres) or in the Gallery Geraldes da Silva, in Oporto (Portugal). Moreover, she has participated in the contest Outono Fotográfico 08, in Ourense, since another aspect of her untiring creativity is her interest in digital photography.
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