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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Begoña
Lafuente
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“I explore the essence of ART: I am intrigued by the motifs of the works that endure over time, and those that fall into oblivion.”
Begoña Lafuente, (Spain, 1969) is a pictorial, graphic and multimedia artist; Now-a-days she develops her main creations from her studio next to the North Sea in the Netherlands. Her career is rooted in graphic design developed in Madrid in the early 90's, at a key moment for this discipline when it reached the range of artistic expression within and outside the field of corporate image in Spain.
Huge is a composition based on several scannographies.
It's not a drawing but has something similar to those Da Vinci's eyewitness sketches. Flowers and paper are perceived with a different eye, shapes and organic textures are important. Light plays in a funny way that makes shapes levitating through this abstract composition.
Begoña intertwines her classical and artistic learning as a graduate in Fine Arts with the latest representation trends in a constant search and broadens her experience as a graphic designer, art director, and illustrator for different companies in corporate identity and advertising.
This piece belongs to the series METHAPHORA.
This abstract landscape evokes another dimension where time and space loops in a cycle with no beginning nor end.
In 2009 she moved her residence to the Netherlands. Here she interacts with local and international artists from different fields and integrates in her art a new reality that she fuses in her creations with lessons from the Spanish masters. She works with different techniques such as painting, collage, drawing, photography, scans, and monoprints.
“I intend when I create my art: I want you to be an active part of my living work.”
She studies the human being as a symbol of expression of being and creates an emotional and visual tension through the use of thematic contrasts, of colour, of biological forms versus geometric forms, all representations of an ever-changing nature. Her portfolio also incorporates recognizable forms from the great Master of Art History from a contemporary perspective.
“The experience makes the piece always accompany the observer because completing the apparently unfinished art involves in the creative process.”
She often participates in local and international art fairs and exhibitions and her work can be found in private collections throughout Europe and in the United States of America.
This experimental scannography belongs to the series METHAPHORA.
“As any observer of art, I wonder if those meanings that I do not find are those that make the piece memorable. Maybe, initially confusing us but arousing our interest and eventually enriching us in the process of discovery.”
Crossroads, is a metaphor for experiences throughout life.
Begoña Lafuente alludes to the feeling of déjà vu or, if you want, of intuition that allows you to adapt to new situations.
METHAPHORA is a Scannography series. This is a new way to observe and show the world around us. It's not photography but it reproduces reality with extraordinary precision. It is not a drawing, but it evokes the eyewitness sketches of biologists from the Renaissance. Perspective and size become metaphoric, shapes and textures are in charge, and the “Hyper-real” becomes abstraction and surreal.
The letter is a piece of 9 independent modules.
Paper twist and flows on blue like some kind of ancient geroglyphyc
The fractal world shows the beauty with-in the soul of Nature. Begoña Lafuente recovers a range of geometric details and masters the compositions with measured twists and turns in relation to the colour palette she chooses to represent them with give them a natural rhythm. Life within life: any ordinary object is a new discovery with a new story to tell, leaving the door open for imagination.
The plasticity of the organic forms on Turquoise transport you to the bottom of the ocean
Dried flowers, leaves, fruit peel, paper stripes, onion layers, threads or ropes, even plastic toys, those are some of Begoña Lafuente's precious little treasures. Always curious, she collects new samples of every day's life to take them out of their context and show them with new eyes of a tireless explorer.
The eye travels through the image and get trapped reading further meanings that as always are just up to you.
“The meaning behind my art will be ‘just for your eyes’ and is left in your hands.”
Still life dance of paper and vegetal, static but full of movement
This series is designed to stablish a dialog between the pieces themselves to create a modular composition. METHAPHOR flows through the entire room as an interactive piece with the public, able to place the works in the order and position they wished when shown physically.
The shape of organic elements and paper compound a perfect match . Rhythm and colours on balance suggest a ballerina on stage
Above all Lafuente aims for interaction. She explores boundaries between figuration and abstraction. You wonder what you are watching, so familiar and so new at the same time. One media is always stepping on to the skills of another. Her experimental scannography and its plasticity exudes an irrepressible desire to become a painting and the observer desires to be an artist.
A sea of abstraction full of rhythm. The elements push and pool on a continuous flow.