MEMORIA DEL COLOR

The exhibition Memory of Colour by Menchu Lamas opens next Friday, 15th February, at the Gema Llamazares Gallery with a selection of recent works. Colour appears in Menchu Lamas’ work as the central protagonist of the pictorial act. Layers of colour, chromatic textures, subtle movements of the material infuse dynamism into the surface. The magic of colour in radiant yellows, intense greens, blues full of magnetism. There is a great contrast between warm and cool tones. A chromatic passion as a decisive sensory vector. Colour defines the spaces and creates a habitat for the gaze. The image emerges as a constructive act born from this interaction. A pulsional geometry defines the composition, linking the various parts of the painting. Mazes and perceptual interstices, lines of light. A symbolic abstraction where graphics, gestures, evocations, and suggestive presences merge. The colour palette is fully revealed here. The breathing of colour, the border dialogues between different tones. “When colour breathes, the image vibrates and the painting takes form,” the artist noted in a recent event upon entering the Galician Academy of Fine Arts. The dialectic of form establishes primordial membranes and suggestive superpositions. In spaces of encounter, various elements coexist, merging into a unified space. The forms call for a new gaze through plots and networks of meaning in a continuous chromatic metamorphosis. A tactile dimension where the fragments acquire a visual coherence in balance. The creation process is present in traces and manifestations of pictorial expressiveness. Intensity and energy of a symbolic vocabulary that takes on a personal dimension. Hands, imprints, glidings. Colour travels these surfaces and seems to make a pact with light. Spirals in solar flow, rotation of circles and spheres, paths of the compositional vectors. Silhouettes and contours sharply outlined. The gaze penetrates perforated spaces. Primordial, telluric coordinates. The enigma always present in her work, close to an emblem, with the visual force of a talisman.