NURIA MORA | SOPHIE CRICHTON | CHRISTINA GSCHWANTNER | EMECA
LYRIC

Galleria Patricia Armocida is happy to announce Lyric, a group exhibition with works by Nuria Mora (Madrid, Spain. 1974), Emeca (Madrid, Spain. 1976), Sophie Crichton (Toronto, Canada. 1993), and Christina Gschwantner (Vienna, Austria. 1975). 

Four artists, hailing from different origins and generations, with different abstract languages, explore themes of materiality, freedom of expression, perception, and pictorial gesture. A visual dialogue of lyrical abstraction, a direct, physical, and sensorial experience of painting. Monumental scale, free gestural style, and color are formal elements of the pieces, guided by esthetic principles rather than a desire to represent reality.

Nuria Mora works with the harmony of forms in space, incorporating organic elements like sand as well. Her sculptural language explores memory, family relationships, and personal cartographies.

Emeca’s work is characterized by the focus on large-format painting, based on the coexistence between color, light, and the composition of solid forms. His paintings have a chromatic strength that alludes to fields of color observed from above with a bird’s eye view, where lines and surfaces stand out in their contrasts. This search for harmony through color and form allows the viewer to freely interpret and feel the emotions his works transmit.

Sophie Crichton, known for her vibrant and visceral abstract paintings, explores themes such as collective disillusionment with contemporary life, alienation in the digital age, and the search for identity, community, and belonging. Her canvases, reminiscent of the patina of city walls, are textured and layered, bearing the marks of time and human interaction. 

Christina Gschwantner’s artistic practice reduces everything to the essentials, the brush strokes, and the color. Small nuances, such as the distance between individual strokes, the angle of inclination, the overlap, the structure of the impasto, the brightness, and the rhythm, create an entirely new narrative in each painting.

Together, these artists offer a profound and thought-provoking reflection, inviting viewers to look beyond the visible and immerse themselves in a universe where form and color speak directly to the soul.