Untitled [Sin título] (2002)
Acrylic on MDF
84.5 x 84.5 cm
BA Collection
Registration No.: 2002.52.1
Idoia Montón’s painting has a psychological aspect that ensures it does not go unnoticed. Her mindset borders on the grotesque in a figuration with marked expressionist and surrealist overtones. Her themes explore the organic processes, the animistic character with which we conceive certain objects, the energy that can emanate from the inert or that we simply imagine. Her compositions are packed with dynamic and tense forms, along with artifices, embellishments and an intense colour range.
This work contains all those aspects of her work, along with her tendency to dramatise images. Idoia constructs dreamlike and even end-of-the-world scenes that challenge the limits of rational thought and reveal the most hidden desires, fears or thoughts of the unconscious.
Idoia Montón Gorostegui (Donostia‑San Sebastián, 1969) is a visual artist with an established track record in painting, collage and drawing. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country and furthered her studies at the Arteleku workshops. During her career, her art has been deeply linked to the everyday, which passes through a scenic filter: her paintings and collages are based on images of daily life, transformed by her symbolic and poetic gaze as a way to reflect on her surroundings, social reality and contemporaneity.
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