Victoria Encinas - Tallar una gema

  • Iroe, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 140 cm.

    Iroe, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 140 cm.

  • Silenciosa, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm.

    Silenciosa, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm.

  • Gabinete turquesa 4, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.

    Gabinete turquesa 4, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.

'Carving a gem', individual exhibition by Victoria Encinas (Madrid, 1962), which is articulated in two different spaces in the collective event Art Palma Brunch 2024; one in the Galeria Maior exhibition space in Pollença and the other in La Misericordia in Palma, provided by the Consell de Mallorca.
According to Victoria, “cutting a gem, silently, is an aesthetic exercise on a natural element from which a new order is asked, a faceted and geometric order. Chaos and order come together in an enigmatic, rare, precious object. For me art is something like that.
Order is a desire for peace. Chaos is sometimes the most alive, what stirs the static order again, towards transformation and dynamics. Art, always oscillating between these two complementary poles.
In my work, the utopias of modern abstraction are grafted with the concepts of the organic and the formless; the ascetic foundation of the Povera with the color and aesthetics of the polymers.”

Victoria Encinas has exhibited, among other spaces, in 2009 at the Galeria Maior in Palma, 2019 Poisson Soluble Archive, Network of Archives of independent contemporary art initiatives in Madrid since the 80s. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain, 2014 Paseo Naranja, CEART Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Fuenlabrada, Spain and 2021 L'Amazzonia deve viviere, Diotti Museum, Casalmaggiore, Italy.
She has participated in the international art fairs ARCOmadrid, Estampa, KIAF, FIA, ArtMadrid…
Her work is part of important collections such as the Crown Prince Collection of Dubai, Collection of the Community of Madrid, Caja Madrid Foundation, International Museum of Electrography, Board of Trustees of the Provincial Council of Malaga, CEART, Mariano Yera Collection... among others.