The exhibition “Chromatic Dreams” by Nanda Botellawhich closes the programming of exhibitions of the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia in 2024, will open its doors directly to the public this Friday without making an official presentation or inauguration out of respect for the victims and victims of the DANA of last October 29, which is still keeps so many populations and inhabitants of the province in such extraordinary circumstances.
The exhibition traces the evolution of the Valencian artist over the last ten years through her major thematic series, always marked by use of shapes and colors. Organized by art critic and professor of aesthetics and theory of arts at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Fernando Castro Flórez, the exhibition is made up of 40 works including paintings, sculptures and installations, in which Nanda Botella expresses herself through the power of her boiler, red and blue colors, and the exploration of materials such as pigment, textile, ceramic, wood or methacrylate.
Nanda Botella (Valencia, 1960) focuses her work on imagination and the work of transmitting sensations through matter. Color functions as an energetic trigger in a work which arouses the spectator’s curiosity to stop at the concreteness of abstraction, and which invites more to feel than to interpret.
The exhibition is chaired by the installation of a spherical iron structure reminiscent of a beehiveand which contains hundreds of pieces of paper and rope, elements that establish a dialogue between different materials and interact with the space to evoke the emotion of artistic creation using shapes and colors to build depth and evoke transparency.
Nanda Botella’s aesthetic inherits the tradition of material abstraction, rediscovering the monumental dimension of Mark Rothko and the gestural intensity of Jackson Pollock. The artist gives free rein to the spontaneous without losing control of the painting, mixing gesture, stain and graphics with an extraordinary chromatic passion. His painting has points of contact with the abstraction developed by José Guerrero, Luis Feito or José Manel Broto, and the influence of Joaquín Michavila and José María Yturralde is also evident.
On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalog was published with the reproduction of the works exhibited and a critical text by the curator. As part of its mediation program, the Bancaja Foundation It offers guided tours led by an expert specializing in art and cultural mediation.
The exhibition can be visited from November 22, 2024 to February 7, 2025 at the Bancaja Foundation (Plaza Tetuán, 23), Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
