Arco Iris: Conchita Bardají Solo Exhibition

Arco Iris: Conchita Bardají Solo Exhibition
September 5 - 26 

For Conchita Bardají's first solo exhibition at Meyer Vogl Gallery, the Pamplona, Spain-based artist has created a rainbow ("arco iris" in Spanish) of colored pencil drawings: Red, blue, green, and every color of the rainbow spectrum. 

"Arco Iris is a tribute to all the colors that have made me dream and want to turn nature into that 'something more," says Bardají.
 

"My drawings are inspired by my walks through nature," says Bardají. "I contemplate the trees, my mind wanders between the leaves and branches, and I photograph those visions. That's where my work arises, from the desire to transform those images into something more: into a drawing. I've always enjoyed making realistic drawings; I think that's where I know how to express myself best. At first, I made these drawings of nature with a black pencil, but I began to miss something, and I began to make them in color, but not with colors that represent the real, but with colors that take them to a new place of fantasy, that separate them a little from reality."

"As a lover of painting, I really like abstraction. I would love to be an abstract painter, and in my youth I tried, but then I went back to my place, which is figuration. When I look at the tangles of leaves and branches of the trees, I see abstract compositions, which make me dream, and rise to something superior, not concrete, and it is a very similar feeling to when I contemplate a good abstract work. The color of my drawings links them in a certain way with pictorial abstraction, and allows us to be free to dream."

To purchase or inquire about any of the artwork in the exhibition, email katie@meyervogl.com or call the gallery at (843) 805-7144.