Vital Force

May 17, 2019

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[:es]<em>Sin título<em/> 2000 Acrílico y carbón sobre papel Díptico 95 x 140 cm (95 x 70 cm c/u) [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Acrylic and charcoal on paper Diptych 37 x 55 in (37 x 27 in each)[:]

[:es]Sin título 2000 Acrílico y carbón sobre papel Díptico 95 x 140 cm (95 x 70 cm c/u) [:en]Untitled 2000 Acrylic and charcoal on paper Diptych 37 x 55 in (37 x 27 in each)[:]

[:es]<em>Elíxir</em> 1997 Óleo sobre tela 80 cm de diámetro [:en]<em>Elixir</em> 1997 Oil on canvas 31.49 in diameter[:]

[:es]Elíxir 1997 Óleo sobre tela 80 cm de diámetro [:en]Elixir 1997 Oil on canvas 31.49 in diameter[:]

[:es]<em>Inicio</em> 2000 Encáustica y carbón sobre tela 110 x 136 cm [:en]<em>Beginning</em> 2000 Encaustic and charcoal on canvas 43.30 x 53.54 in[:]

[:es]Inicio 2000 Encáustica y carbón sobre tela 110 x 136 cm [:en]Beginning 2000 Encaustic and charcoal on canvas 43.30 x 53.54 in[:]

[:es]<em>Pasión</em> 2001 Encáustica sobre tela 130 x 110 cm [:en]<em>Passion</em> 2001 Encaustic on canvas 51.18 x 43.30 in[:]

[:es]Pasión 2001 Encáustica sobre tela 130 x 110 cm [:en]Passion 2001 Encaustic on canvas 51.18 x 43.30 in[:]

[:es]<em>Energía II</em> 2003 Acrílico y carbón sobre tela 140 x 110 cm [:en]<em>Energy II</em> 2003 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 55.11 x 43.30 in[:]

[:es]Energía II 2003 Acrílico y carbón sobre tela 140 x 110 cm [:en]Energy II 2003 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 55.11 x 43.30 in[:]

[:es]<em>Las cuatro estaciones</em> 2000 Óleo sobre tela Políptico de ocho paneles 200 x 280 cm (50 x 70 cm c/u) [:en]<em>The four seasons</em> 2000 Oil on canvas Polyptych of eight panels 78.74 x 110.42 in (19.68 x 27.55 in each) 2000[:]

[:es]Las cuatro estaciones 2000 Óleo sobre tela Políptico de ocho paneles 200 x 280 cm (50 x 70 cm c/u) [:en]The four seasons 2000 Oil on canvas Polyptych of eight panels 78.74 x 110.42 in (19.68 x 27.55 in each) 2000[:]

[:es]<em>Rosa</em> 2003 Óleo y carbón sobre tela 126 x 140 cm [:en]<em>Rose</em> 2003 Oil and charcoal on canvas 49.60 x 55.11 in[:]

[:es]Rosa 2003 Óleo y carbón sobre tela 126 x 140 cm [:en]Rose 2003 Oil and charcoal on canvas 49.60 x 55.11 in[:]

[:es]<em>Heroína</em> 2003 Encáustica y carbón sobre tela 190 x 150 cm [:en]<em>Heroin</em> 2003 Encaustic and charcoal on canvas 74.80 x 59.05 in[:]

[:es]Heroína 2003 Encáustica y carbón sobre tela 190 x 150 cm [:en]Heroin 2003 Encaustic and charcoal on canvas 74.80 x 59.05 in[:]

[:es]<em>Capullo</em> 2002 Óleo sobre madera 60 x 50 cm [:en]<em>Cocoon</em> 2002 Oil on wood 23.62 x 19.68 in[:]

[:es]Capullo 2002 Óleo sobre madera 60 x 50 cm [:en]Cocoon 2002 Oil on wood 23.62 x 19.68 in[:]

[:es]<em>Corazón</em> 2003 Óleo sobre tela Tríptico 130 x 240 cm (130 x 80 cm c/u) [:en]<em>Heart</em> 2003 Oil on canvas Triptych 51.18 x 94.48 in (51.18 x 31.49 in each) [:]

[:es]Corazón 2003 Óleo sobre tela Tríptico 130 x 240 cm (130 x 80 cm c/u) [:en]Heart 2003 Oil on canvas Triptych 51.18 x 94.48 in (51.18 x 31.49 in each) [:]

[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2000 Carbón sobre papel Tríptico 64 x 150 cm (64 x 50 cm c/u) [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Charcoal on paper Triptych 25.19 x 59.05 in (25.19 x 19.68 in each) 2000[:]

[:es]Sin título 2000 Carbón sobre papel Tríptico 64 x 150 cm (64 x 50 cm c/u) [:en]Untitled 2000 Charcoal on paper Triptych 25.19 x 59.05 in (25.19 x 19.68 in each) 2000[:]

[:es][:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel izquierdo: 64 x 50 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Charcoal on paper Left panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]

[:es][:es]Sin título 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel izquierdo: 64 x 50 cm [:en]Untitled 2000 Charcoal on paper Left panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]

[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel central: 64 x 50 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Charcoal on paper Central panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]

[:es]Sin título 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel central: 64 x 50 cm [:en]Untitled 2000 Charcoal on paper Central panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]

[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel derecho: 64 x 50 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Charcoal on paper Right panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]

[:es]Sin título 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel derecho: 64 x 50 cm [:en]Untitled 2000 Charcoal on paper Right panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]

[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 1996 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 1996 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]

[:es]Sin título 1996 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]Untitled 1996 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]

[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2002 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2002 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]

[:es]Sin título 2002 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]Untitled 2002 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]

[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2002 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2002 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]

[:es]Sin título 2002 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]Untitled 2002 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]

Vital Force

“Silence, earth will give birth to a tree”. (Vicente Huidobro, Altazor-Song I)

Heroin because she said NO and stood drinking amongst gardenias. In the folds of the first button, really. The truth did not come unwrapped in radiant petals, mirrors of dew, iridescent leaves or any other surface of pores with luminous reflections. It is in the cradle of sepal where the courtship made by María José Romero to oil is hidden. As a kind of botanical cloister, the female organ, pistil topped by a stylus and an inevitable stigma, injects the ink into the cell, as if it were the exemplary micro of the cosmos, with a paintbrush, fairies famous for their transparent wings. The enigma is extracted from the body at the level of a butterfly watching inverted eyes with closed lids.

The harvest begins in black and opens the fan of inventoried landscape.
This landscape, however, is not static, it is a body that contracts and expands, convicts and acquits, collects and disseminates, swings with discipline to rhythmic spaces. It is important to kick the seed in fertile ground with a slight swing of the knee.

The work María José Romero creates knows no stillness.

Her speech of splendid vitality crowns movement, untamed because it is ungraspable, rescued and framed in its flow and of its constant, unique agility. It is a metamorphic study succeeding in kind appreciation of chaos of which naturally its organic nature derives, preventing any attempt at a perfectionist paralysis because (he who embraces a cocoon knows why, besieging, unraveling) perfection like that is not just a lie it is an insult of the inert. Movement, however, and its parade of folds, is life.
Maité Iracheta
City of New York, 2003

[:es]<em>Sin título<em/> 2000 Acrílico y carbón sobre papel Díptico 95 x 140 cm (95 x 70 cm c/u) [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Acrylic and charcoal on paper Diptych 37 x 55 in (37 x 27 in each)[:]
[:es]<em>Elíxir</em> 1997 Óleo sobre tela 80 cm de diámetro [:en]<em>Elixir</em> 1997 Oil on canvas 31.49 in diameter[:]
[:es]<em>Inicio</em> 2000 Encáustica y carbón sobre tela 110 x 136 cm [:en]<em>Beginning</em> 2000 Encaustic and charcoal on canvas 43.30 x 53.54 in[:]
[:es]<em>Pasión</em> 2001 Encáustica sobre tela 130 x 110 cm [:en]<em>Passion</em> 2001 Encaustic on canvas 51.18 x 43.30 in[:]
[:es]<em>Energía II</em> 2003 Acrílico y carbón sobre tela 140 x 110 cm [:en]<em>Energy II</em> 2003 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 55.11 x 43.30 in[:]
[:es]<em>Las cuatro estaciones</em> 2000 Óleo sobre tela Políptico de ocho paneles 200 x 280 cm (50 x 70 cm c/u) [:en]<em>The four seasons</em> 2000 Oil on canvas Polyptych of eight panels 78.74 x 110.42 in (19.68 x 27.55 in each) 2000[:]
[:es]<em>Rosa</em> 2003 Óleo y carbón sobre tela 126 x 140 cm [:en]<em>Rose</em> 2003 Oil and charcoal on canvas 49.60 x 55.11 in[:]
[:es]<em>Heroína</em> 2003 Encáustica y carbón sobre tela 190 x 150 cm [:en]<em>Heroin</em> 2003 Encaustic and charcoal on canvas 74.80 x 59.05 in[:]
[:es]<em>Capullo</em> 2002 Óleo sobre madera 60 x 50 cm [:en]<em>Cocoon</em> 2002 Oil on wood 23.62 x 19.68 in[:]
[:es]<em>Corazón</em> 2003 Óleo sobre tela Tríptico 130 x 240 cm (130 x 80 cm c/u) [:en]<em>Heart</em> 2003 Oil on canvas Triptych 51.18 x 94.48 in (51.18 x 31.49 in each) [:]
[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2000 Carbón sobre papel Tríptico 64 x 150 cm (64 x 50 cm c/u) [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Charcoal on paper Triptych 25.19 x 59.05 in (25.19 x 19.68 in each) 2000[:]
[:es][:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel izquierdo: 64 x 50 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Charcoal on paper Left panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]
[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel central: 64 x 50 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Charcoal on paper Central panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]
[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2000 Carbón sobre papel Panel derecho: 64 x 50 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2000 Charcoal on paper Right panel: 25.19 x 19.68 in[:]
[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 1996 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 1996 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]
[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2002 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2002 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]
[:es]<em>Sin título</em> 2002 Carbón sobre papel 95 x 70 cm [:en]<em>Untitled</em> 2002 Charcoal on paper 37.40 x 27.55 in[:]