YIRI ARTS is pleased to present "Painting Through Drawing," a solo exhibition focussing on a new body of work on paper by Mònica Subidé. In her recent work, Mònica continues to employ her unique and intimate visual languages while re-examining the relationship between painting, drawing, and the identity as a painter. Here, Mònica positions herself away from a conventional working method. She developed a novel and personal approach, depicting those around her with daringly honest, forthright, and empathetic warmth throughout her practice. Seeing paper as a vessel creates the most direct insight and emotional force. For her, drawing builds a path embedded with the narrative that leads to her paintings.
Mònica Subidé (b.1974, Barcelona, Spain) working with a variety of mediums and grounds-oil paint, pencil, canvas, paper, and sometimes minimal collaged motifs. The quality of her dreamlike work, both illusory and placid, ranging from her muted colour palettes to her unfinished lines and quasi-cubist approach to shading, precise in style, nonetheless conjures the elements of old master paintings, such as those by Egon Schiele, Ernst Kirchner, and Pablo Picasso.