MÍRAME Fine Art showcases how Costa Rican artists use color to explore cultural identity and emotional depth. The gallery explores how five prominent artists use different palettes to convey complex narratives and psychological states.
SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA / ACCESSWIRE / August 15, 2024 / MÍRAME Fine Art is Costa Rica’s leading online art gallery dedicated to promoting the country’s best artists.
Acrylic on canvas
Carolina Guillermet: The emotional impact of colours
Inspired by her architectural interests and the urban landscapes of San José, Carolina Guillermet’s work is deeply rooted in color theory. She explores how colors interact, combine, and contrast to evoke specific emotional responses. In her vibrant geometric paintings and tapestries, Guillermet uses color to influence perception and evoke deep emotions.
Guillermet’s compositions honor Latin American color traditions and have a deep emotional resonance, expanding the boundaries of identity formation through color in Costa Rican contemporary art.
Milo Gonzalez: Evoking life in Costa Rica through color
Milo Gonzalez reinterprets Costa Rican figurative painting using a predominantly earthy palette that he enlivens with vibrant tones, bringing to life a variety of scenes, from everyday Costa Rican culture to intimate, domestic moments.
Influenced by Cubism and the masters of modernism, Gonzalez applies his colors spontaneously, combining tradition with modern vibrancy and blending Costa Rica’s cultural identity with greater emotional depth.
Katrin Aason: Reviving tradition through natural dyes
Katrin Aason creates geometric woven ribbon works that combine tradition and innovation. She creates her own vibrant colors using natural dyes such as avocado pits, cuculmeca and onion skins. Her work revives ancient dyeing techniques and is closely linked to Costa Rican heritage, using color as a narrative tool linked to the history of Central and South America.
Aason invites the viewer to explore the different layers of meaning of cultural elements through these natural colors, challenging traditional boundaries and establishing her work as a central part of Costa Rican contemporary art.
Lucía Howell Vargas: Dance and Visual Arts
Combining her dance background with fine art, Lucía Howell Vargas uses movement to influence reflections and colors in her performances. Her paintings often use a palette of soft blues and grays, contrasted with flashes of pink and black, creating a dynamic interplay between light and reflection.
Howell Vargas transforms everyday objects on canvas into striking visual experiences, inspiring colors reminiscent of photo negatives that evoke a sense of introspection.
Alonso Durán: Mathematical precision meets organic expression
Alonso Durán’s abstract paintings combine mathematics with spontaneous, organic expression. He carefully mixes his own colors, giving each painting a unique visual language. His works are characterized by warm color palettes with bold highlights, capturing the energy of Costa Rica’s landscapes.
Durán’s use of color explores the interplay of chaos and order in nature, guided by his mathematical expertise. His canvases interweave time, movement and space, creating a dynamic visual experience.
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