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Artist Statement:
ARTIST STATEMENT
We live in a world full of
catastrophes, wars, trash TV
and shallowness. This gray
atmosphere can surround us in
a sad and overwhelming way,
making us think that this is
it: We are trapped in here.
There is no way out. Our
society is getting worse.
However, ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2006: Monastery Santa Cruz,
Segovia, Spain
2005: Galeria Maes, Madrid,
Spain
2005: Museo Casa Orduna,
Alicante, Spain
2005: Artacasa Gallery,
Amsterdam, Holland
2004: Ingo Fincke Gallery,
London, UK
2004: Salon d'autumn
Fontainebleau, France
2004: Karen Taylor
Contemporary Art Gallery,
London, UK
2004: Galeria Gaudi, Madrid,
Spain
2004: ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Collections:
Esgueva's works are present in
numerous private collections
in France, Swizerland, Spain,
USA, Costa Rica and the UK as
well as the Monaco Museum of
Modern Art, Museum of Latin
american Art (Miami, USA),
Hewlett-Packard Foundation
France, Museo Casa Orduña
(Spain) and the Museum
Zarzuela del Monte (...
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Commissions:
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Flowers for Life
Wars, famine and sickness are facts with which we have to live every day in our world. Our existence is so influenced by technology that we actually cannot almost live without machines, which liberate but also condemn us. Cities are grey and we give our back to nature, whilst she stirs terribly to be able to come back to balance. And it is her, in her subtlest and defenceless version, the main character in the new series of paintings by Monica L. Esgueva.
Flowers like images of life, characters that feel, act and reveal the beauty of simplicity. Close-up portraits, looking for the essence concentrated in the detail of what is going on, humble, unnoticed, but centring in the small a great number of sensual shapes capable of passing on the greatest beauty.
These flowers fill everything and become metaphors of reality, of our lives, hugging or dancing with movement and drive.
Exaltation of Nature in its colour and joy, sensual and delicate, that maybe is asking for our love and care, since the other choice is only death, dark presence as a material installation in the room, waiting in our world.
Strong colours that light fills with life. A classical theme renovated thanks to the artist’s inwardness, since this has nothing to do with naturalist books. Here the painter projects her stare in order to give us back the reality touched as almost magic presences from her inside. Simplified shapes searching for the essential. They are not hard or abstract; they are more than anything sensual and morbid, urging with calm movements to those that are willing to stop their look for an instant upon them. They ask in the intimacy, such as somebody with whom we speak to in whispers so the noise will not alter the message, so we can establish complicity as well: Have you seen my perfection?
In addition to them, we can find some landscapes, images of symbiosis with humanity.
Maybe this would the possible ideal, if beauty could sink deep in the heart. It is in any case, an ideal for which it is worthy to fight for, even if its army is fragile, as we have said. I will not anyone say that this is the soul of a woman, because with that we would reject the redemption to half the humanity.
Flowers from the inside, flowers to move. Flowers from this cold Madrid with ten million death ears. But in a corner Mónica L. Esgueva cries with silence.
By Fernando Rincón, for El Punto de las Artes
(weekly Spanish art newspaper)
October 2005
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Nature as a back canvas, flowers as the source of inspiration.
Monica L. Esgueva is a young Madrilène painter living in Paris. She invites to a serene, bucolic but also ecologist exhibition.
To be visited until October 18th, 2005
Ask a Madrilène expatriate in Paris what she misses more of Spain. There will 50 per cent of possibilities that she tells you, as Monica L. Esgueva: “The blue sky”. It is maybe and partly to exorcise the greyness of Paris that this young painter dedicates her palette to a living, ideal nature and most of all virgin from all human incursions.
In this very natural inspiration, Monica gives a prominent place to flowers, although they are never in bouquets or cut. She zooms uniquely on the vegetal and she depicts softly on the canvas. Monica L. Esgueva invites also the eye to enter in her green world. If we are able to guess in the close- ups of petals, pistils or hearts, it is more a question of poetry than strictly botanic.
Beautiful ecology
For Esgueva, painting nature is somewhere a ecological mission: “I adore painting beauty. This why I feel somewhat apart from trendy art movements that have chaos as their flag. We can see ugliness just turning on the TV. Personally, I prefer make people dream, but also and very important, I would like to make people reflect about the wild aspect that it is still unspoiled in our environment because this could change in the near future”.
Monica lives close to Paris since 1999. She has exhibited in France, UK, Holland, USA and Costa Rica. She comes regularly to Madrid, her hometown, to get resourced. This time is Maes Gallery the one to present her last works, most of them oils and acrylics, until October 18th.
Sylvie Forder, for Lepetijournal.com (Newspaper for French living abroad)
October 2005
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"Les fleurs jouent un rôle très important sur notre planète. Sans elles, il n'y aurait pas de vie!". Mónica López-Esgueva aime les fleurs passionnément.
Elle y puise largement son inspiration pour exercer ses talents de peintre. Pour elle, "les fleurs ne sont pas une distraction insignifiante ni une simple décoration extérieure. Elles nous sont indispensables". Cela se traduit magnifiquement dans ses superbes peintures, dont une partie seront visibles à partir de ce soir à la galerie Hérouet à Paris, dans le Marais.
La jeune peintre espagnole y expose jusqu'au 15 octobre prochain sur le thème "Les fleurs comme métaphore de la vie". Des fleurs, Mónica López-Esgueva représente "la beauté universelle, symbolisant le rêve de perfection." Pour l'artiste, "elles nous rappellent aussi la transformation inlassable de la vie".
Un miracle plein de mystères
Dans son travail de peintre, Mónica ne cesse de regarder les fleurs, de les scruter pour mieux en percer les secrets, mieux interpréter leurs apparences. Ses tableaux reflètent la douceur et la lumière des végétaux. Ses peintures évoquent la contemplation d'une nature sans défaut, des images persistantes d'une nature vue comme un miracle permanent et plein de mystères.
Mónica Lopez-Esgueva, une Madrilène de 29 ans, qui a vécu à Londres où elle a participé au concours national du Portrait Gallery, est aujourd'hui installée à Fontainebleau près de Barbizon, cette région de l'Ile-de-France qui attira tant d'artistes. Elle a exposé à Madrid, Londres, au Costa-Rica, Paris et pour le grand portail espagnol web Terra. Autodidacte, elle approche aujourd'hui de la maturité de son art comme le prouve l'expo très accomplie qu'elle présente galerie Hérouet.
Cécile LE TOULLEC (2 octobre 2001)
LePetitJournal.com
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