María Lara ( Loja, Granada, 1940 ) has developed since the early seventies a body of work focused on sensory and emotional impressions of all kinds, which in her work are translated into simple and powerful elements – very often bands and lines – which, on the one hand, synthesize these perceptive effects, and, on the other, convert them into pure plasticity (…)
Her concise compositions emphasize the self-referential pictorial quality advocated by Greenberg and exemplified by the concepts of color field painting or all-over painting, without making concessions to illusion or anecdote. With an economy of means, given that she almost exclusively uses lines and bands of various colors, the artist from Granada manages to capture a synthetic and refined language on canvas and paper. But, despite this conscious restriction in the means and spellings that she rigorously uses in her work -her method of working may seem severe and even rigidly programmed at first sight-, the result is highly emotional and evocative.
In this way, the paintings and drawings of María Lara present a high value and chromatic subtlety; in her works, the color vibrates intensely in the succession of vertical or horizontal lines that make them up. Apparently silent, his pieces call for an interiority and intimacy far removed from the spectacular or the anecdotal, and focus on an abstract and refined intensity that, far from detracting from emotion, conveys impressions as vivid as they are insightful and everyday sensations related to ineffable matters such as light, air, spatial reverberation, everyday life or spirituality, among others. Eliminating all kinds of illusionism, there remains a powerful and apparently flat pictorial reality that affects the perceptual level, emitting visual and also tactile vibrations that alter the flatness until reaching a perceptive opening that makes the materiality of painting and drawing such, but also transfigured substance.
(Fragment of "Luz prolongada. La trayectoria artística de María Lara", Manuel Olveira)
MARIA LARA
Granada, 1940
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2022
“Percepciones de interior“ Galería Maior, Pollença – Mallorca -
2021
“Percepciones de interior” Galería Adora Calvo, Las Rozas – Madrid -
2019
“Sensaciones, registros e impresiones” MUSAC, León
“La luz” Museo Francisco Sobrino, Guadalajara.
2011
“Luz y origen” Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid
2008
“Acerca de lo visible y lo invisible” Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid
2005
“a lo largo del día, la luz...” Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid
2002
Sala del C.C.P. Diputación de Málaga
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
1996
CRUCE, Madrid
1986
Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada Galería Laguada, Granada
1972
Sala de la Diputación de Málaga Universidad de Granada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
“Lo sé, es solo pintura pero me gusta“ ABM, Madrid
2016
Colegio de Psicología, Madrid
2013
“Monocromátcos” Galería Adora Calvo, Salamanca 2012 RMS, el espacio. Madrid.
2011
Espacio Atlántco, Vigo, Stand Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid
2010
ArtMadrid, Stand Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid
2009
ArtMadrid, Stand Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid
2008
Feria Kunst 08, Zurich, Stand Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid
Feria de Toronto, Stand Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid
Galería Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2005
Galería Amparo Gámir, Madrid
Homenaje a Sandra Rodríguez, CRUCE, Madrid.
2000
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
1999
CRUCE, Madrid
1998
Galería Ginkgo, Madrid
CRUCE, Madrid
Le Nuvole, Palermo-Italia
1993
ACI Gallery, Nagoya-Japón
1988
Mujer y Artes Plástcas, Granada
1984
Museo Bello Piñeiro, Ferrol
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Cáceres
Centro Cultural Manuel de Falla, Granada
1983
Centro Cultural Manuel de Falla, Granada
1982
Arteder'82, Bilbao
Galería Costa 3, Zaragoza
1981
Grabadores Andaluces, Andalucía
1972
Pintores y Escultores, Granada
1971
Fundación Rodríguez Acosta, Granada
Bienal de Zaragoza