Maru Quiñonero

Contemporary Abstract Art by Mari Quiñonero

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Born in 1979 in Murcia, Spain

EDUCATION
Art History Degree · Murcia University (1997 – 2001)
MA Fashion Communication VOGUE · Carlos III University, Madrid (2005- 2006)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
‘What if?’ (Painting) Voltz Clarke Gallery, New York – March 2020
‘Color and Vacuum’ (Drawing) EG Galería, Madrid – May 2019
‘Mujeres’ (Illustration&collage) EG Galería, Madrid – October 2017
‘Treinta’ (Illustration&collage) EG Galería, Madrid – Oct 2016
‘Ni hadas ni sirenas’ (Collage) Almacén Alquián, Madrid – April 2016
‘La mirada educada’ (Illustration & collage) Passage Privé, Madrid – June 2015
‘Proyecto Ellas’ (Watercolor) Passage Privé, Madrid – December 2014
‘Welcome toMariland’ (Collage) Passage Privé, Madrid – October2013

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
‘En paralelo. Un día es un día’ (Drawing) Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid – Dec 2019
‘Post it’ (Sketches) EG Galería, Madrid – Dec 2019
‘En paralelo’ (Drawing) Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid – Oct 2019
‘Post it’ (Sketches) EG Galería, Madrid – Oct 2018
‘When you are a stranger’ EG Galería, Madrid – May 2017
‘Wall BDC’ Galerie-Espace Le Marais, París – July 2014
‘Wall BDC’ TheWalrus Hub, Barcelona – September 2014

FAIRS
‘Art Madrid’ · Yiri Arts · Madrid (SP) – Feb 2020
’Whaaaaat’s Studio Opening’ · Yiri Arts · Taipei (Taiwan) – January 2020
‘Art Kaohsiung’ Kaohsiung, Taiwan – Dec 2019
‘The Other Art Fair’ Brooklyn, New York – May 2019
‘The Other Art Fair’ London – March 2019
‘Art Future’ Taipei, Taiwan – Jan 2019
‘The Other Art Fair’ London – Oct 2018
‘Asia Art Fair’ Fukuoka – Sept 2018
‘The Other Art Fair’ Bristol – July 2018
‘Affordable Art Fair’ Hong Kong – May 2018

About

I love to play.
I feel passion for volumes, shapes, textures, colors and different materials.
All these elements allow me to play around and define the compositions that make my own creative universe.
I am completely self-taught and I feel absolute freedom when choosing techniques.
Because my work has no boundaries in the pencil or the canvas, but in my own capacity to imagine and feel and express what I have inside.
My working methods always focus on clean visuals and simplicity:

“If an artwork has reason for being, it is enough with very few elements.”
(Alexander Calder)

ABOUT THE COLOR AND VACUUM SERIES

In this abstract line of work (started in 2017) I try to create a conversation between color and emptiness.
The two main characters, the pastels and the paper, live together in harmony to define my own creative universe.
A soft and dry texture on a clean and vast support that welcomes the shapes and colors that come out of my head.
Sometimes following a previous sketch, other times working automatically without paying attention on the rules that I establish myself.
Using a palette tone that works in a therapeutic sense because allows me to explore the synesthesia that lives with me since I was a little girl, creating a very personal link between each color and its own attribution of a particular feeling or mood.
This synesthesia exercise that recognizes the different emotions in colors elevates my creative discourse far beyond the simply aesthetic.
Color and Vacuum is my personal project about the study of color, form and emptiness,

ESPAÑOL

Jugar. Me gusta jugar.
Porque me apasiona trabajar con volúmenes, formas, texturas, colores y diferentes materiales.
Materiales que me permiten definir las composiciones que determinan mi propio universo creativo.
Soy completamente autodidacta y siento total libertad a la hora de usar una técnica u otra. Mi proceso de trabajo no encuentra límites en las herramientas o soportes que utilizo, los límites sólo están en mi propia capacidad de imaginar,
sentir y poder expresar todo lo que llevo dentro.
Siempre intento ser fiel a una máxima:

“If an artwork has reason for being, it is enough with very few elements.” (Alexander Calder).

Sólo trabajo obra original.

COLOR AND VACUUM

Color and Vacuum es uno de mis trabajos más personales.

Es una línea de trabajo abstracta que empecé a desarrollar en 2017 donde el único protagonista es el pastel sobre el papel. Un lenguaje minimalista que se apoya en el color. Una textura blanda y seca sobre un soporte limpio y vasto que acoge las formas y los colores que salen de mi cabeza.

A veces siguiendo un guión abocetado, otras, naciendo de forma automática sin detenerme en las normas que yo misma establezco.
Color and Vacuum es una línea de trabajo con la que trato de crear una conversación entre el color, la forma y el vacío.
La paleta de color alcanza un sentido terapéutico y armónico para mí porque me ayuda a estudiar mi propia sinestesia. La que desde muy pequeña me hace atribuir emociones a cada tonalidad, o colores a cada palabra.

Una percepción involuntaria que lo envuelve todo, desde la obra pictórica hasta su propio título.

Maru Quiñonero

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