Alicia Gimeno

Alicia, born in Barcelona (1989) is an abstract painter with a sensibility for black and white.
 
Early on, she was captivated by calligraphy, the gestures of the brushstroke, the stroke of the pen... And by investigating the depth of the exercise of writing, she came across Japanese calligraphy, thus endowing this manual gesture with spirituality, recognising that the activity of writing could also be a form of expression beyond languages and reading comprehension.
“My work combines two concepts that define me, the organic and nature-based form inherited from Catalan modernism that surrounds my life, and my interest in spirituality applied to Japanese calligraphy“.
 
Alicia's work does not need great chromatic explosions. It is not that colour is conspicuous by its absence, but simply that the artist does not need it to express herself through painting. Her intention, with the representation of her abstract calligraphies impregnated with botanical essence, is to invite the spectator to introspection, to contemplation, where he discovers himself as part of a natural whole, part of a nature of which we often do not remember being part of.
A representation of roots, to think how close we are and how close we should be to the purest and simplest of the planet.
The Qì, 氣 the purest essence, which also lives in our being, expressed through the movement of the brush, of the ink, as in Japanese calligraphy.

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