Montserrat Gudiol

Montserrat Gudiol, one of the few women painters in this collection

About Montserrat Gudiol's Art

Montserrat Gudiol's art has a symbolic component, occasionally oneiric, although her paintings and drawings since the 80's have taken on realistic features to a large extent. The figures begin to detach from the former, completely spiritual atmosphere, the spaces of the subconscious. It is almost as if her figures blossom anew as they come into contact with the reality of everyday life from the surface of the painting. Nonetheless, the sense of secrecy and the symbolic character remain intact. Her figures, whether realistic or archetypal, take in this everyday world from an absorbed and strangely trance-like state, a world which in some paintings appear abstract and empty. In a certain series of drawings in particular, lines divide the space, they cross through it and crucify it (cf. Història de l'art català Vol. IX ).