VMP - Juliana en el castillo

VMP (Instagram @molina.pardo) is a Spanish visual artist, Doctor of Arts and Research, whose practice combines contemporary figurative painting with experimentation in cinema and animation. Numerous awards and selections attest to a consolidated and recognized artistic career.

This original piece, created in 2026, is a figurative study in which an internal system of codes is built, but they are not used to symbolize psychic states, stories, or messages. They are laws of pictorial operation, not keys to allegorical reading. The painting is not organized to “say something” beyond itself, but to show how a figure is sustained, how color closes a space, how the gesture is registered on the surface. The codes it configures (repetition of motifs, certain light, a certain rigidity of composition, type of gaze) are visual rules of play, not keys to emotional or narrative interpretation.

It is proposed that the viewer confront the painting as an object with its own internal laws, rather than search behind it for a confession, a trauma, or a personal story. It is not denied that the viewer may read metaphors, but it is rejected that the practice be permeated by the obligation to produce them. The interest does not lie in encoding a hidden world, but in explicitly organizing the visible world.

These paintings on paper are mixed media on Fabriano paper with a high cotton content. They begin as acrylics or simple drawings that are later manipulated with fine sandpaper, apply glazes of Liquin with oil, and end up painting in oil to highlight soft tones or simply remove the sheen of the acrylic, which on occasion resembles a bit of plastic.

Shipping is done by placing the painting between a DM board (MDF) and a thick transparent acetate sheet that can be used for framing later. The work is protected with bubble wrap and cardboard. The drawings include a mat up to 50 x 70 cm.