Exhibitions
Valvi Foundation illuminates the pictorial universe of Montserrat Costa
Night of Light, one of the standout exhibitions at the end of the year in Girona, celebrates at the Valvi Foundation the career and uniqueness of an artist who has made the pictorial detail a gateway to the great mysteries of the universe. The exhibition can be visited until January 16.
The work of Montserrat Costa is the result of an extensive career, built over decades of artistic investigation and a deeply personal artistic sensitivity. Night of Light, at the Valvi Foundation, recovers paintings made thirty and forty years ago that were well deservedly recognized at the time and that today allow us to trace the continuity of a research marked by fascination with the mysteries of existence.
Delving into Costa's creative universe involves approaching a complex sensitivity, difficult to reduce to a single interpretation. The artist herself, when explaining her works with a passion that transcends formal description, reveals an extraordinary emotionality. It is an energy that refers to Nietzsche's Dionysian excitement, but in her case manifests above all as an inner shock, a restlessness that lies at the origin of the creative impulse. An emotion that often arises from perplexity before the enigmas of a universe that escapes human understanding.
Her painting starts from a meticulous exploration of detail, a true pictorial acupuncture that demands extraordinary precision and a patient mastery of the relationship between gaze and gesture. This discipline, fueled by a long apprenticeship in figure drawing and a thorough education of the pulse, begins at almost microscopic dimensions and ends up unfolding over large surfaces. The small thus becomes the principle of a visual expansion that transforms each composition into a territory of exploration.
In these works emerge constellations of orbits, stars, globular clusters and galaxies, but also forms that evoke the incessant proliferation of viruses. Two extremes of the same restlessness: the immensity of the infinite and the ungraspable dimension of the microscopic. Between these two territories, Montserrat Costa builds an imaginary that confronts the viewer with that which exceeds the limits of perception and knowledge.
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