Vicent Molina Contreras: what lies behind the nude?

The strength that comes with painting from life is one of the most striking features of the artwork of Vicent Molina Contreras. A painterly practice through which he lays bare both physical forms and those that take shelter inside each individual.

His compositions, full of emotion and expressiveness, are the result of that time devoted to observation, to witnessing the matter being painted, which lets him discover, as an accomplice, the secrets hidden in that shared moment. Thanks to this, Vicent Molina Contreras carries into his artworks subjective perceptions that go beyond the visual. He enriches the reality he captures through his perception of movement and, at the same time, reveals those gestures that escape our eye because of the immediacy of the instant, but which the painter holds on to in his artwork.

He uses a quick, loose and precise brushstroke that seeks to accentuate the details that have caught his attention and that he wants to underline for the viewer. He looks and reproduces what he sees in a meticulous way, turning what he sees into artistic matter. These are interpretations from life that try to hold on to the essence of whoever poses for him and that become simple expressions brimming with sensuality.

In the same way, following a deep creative freedom, Vicent Molina Contreras moves away from visual conventions to create a suggestive, evocative painting. In this sense, he sometimes places figures over abstract spaces built out of playing with colour. He thus confronts the presence of the individual, drawing inspiration above all from the woman's body and the space it occupies.