VMP - Mujer con collar de perlas I

VMP is a Spanish visual artist, a PhD in art and research, whose practice combines contemporary figurative painting with experimentation in film 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 governing rules 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 upheld, how color closes a space, how the gesture is recorded on the surface. The codes it configures (repetition of motifs, certain light, certain compositional rigidity, type of gaze) are visual rules of the game, 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 seek behind it 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 techniques on Fabriano paper with a high cotton content. They begin as acrylics or simple drawings that are later manipulated with fine-grade sandpaper, apply glazes of Liquin with oil, and are finished with oil to highlight soft tones or simply remove the gloss of the acrylic, which at times reminds a little of plastic.

The shipment is made by placing the painting between a DM board (MDF—Medium Density Fibreboard) and a thick transparent acetate sheet that can be used to frame the drawings later; they carry a mat up to 50 x 70 cm. The work is protected with bubble wrap and cardboard.