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Nerea CaosAbstract Expressionist Self Portrait Oil Painting Contemporary Figurative Art2023
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Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Self Portrait Figurative Oil Painting
Artist: Nerea Caos (1993, Spain)
Title: Self Portrait 1
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signature: Signed verso CAOS
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed
Dimensions: 70 × 50 cm
Original abstract expressionist self portrait by Spanish contemporary artist Nerea Caos. The composition explores the fragmentation of identity through layered gesture, dense chromatic atmosphere and expressive structural brushwork.
The painting combines figurative presence and psychological abstraction, creating a powerful emotional surface where the human face emerges and dissolves within energetic painterly movement. The restrained palette of blacks, violets and greys contrasted with luminous accents reinforces the introspective tension typical of contemporary European expressionist painting.
Works from this early period represent the artist’s exploration of psychoanalytic imagery and performative identity, themes that define her developing visual language.
An excellent acquisition for collectors of emerging European contemporary painting and interior designers seeking strong statement expressive figurative abstraction.
Nerea Caos (Ferrol, 1993) is a Spanish contemporary painter working between painting, performance and psychoanalytic research. Based in Barcelona and Sitges, her work investigates identity construction through gesture, fragmentation of the body and emotional layering.
Her paintings merge abstract expressionist language with figurative psychological presence, positioning her practice within the current European emerging expressionist scene.
The psychological intensity and gestural layering connect her work with the lineage of Francis Bacon, Antoni Tàpies, Willem de Kooning, and Arnulf Rainer, while the dissolution of the face into painterly structure reflects contemporary developments in European figurative abstraction.
This positioning situates the painting within the broader tradition of post-war expressionist figuration adapted to current conceptual identity narratives.
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- Creator:Nerea Caos (1993, Spanish)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Sitges, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1155211767812
Nerea Sánchez Castro, born in Ferrol, Galicia in 1993, an art student since high school, with constant private training in Art and Performance, studies Early Childhood Education and heads to Barcelona at the age of 21, where she studies Psychoanalysis at the School of Psychoanalysis of Barcelona, a subject that always caught his attention and that he will later make of it his profession. He lives in Sitges, a place that inspires him when it comes to creating, thanks to the landscapes rich in colors, shapes, nature, as well as a unique light that the Mediterranean gives off, not without forgetting the cosmopolitan social environment, with a lot of fashion and art present. completely innovative in the place. Nerea continues with her training in Gestalt Theater Therapy where she is currently participating in Barcelona.
His continuous passion for the unconscious and art has led him to merge the two disciplines into one and create works framed in the artistic current of abstract expressionism, which allows him to experiment with his conscious emotions and his unconscious sensations.
He likes to compose from the dissociated forms of the human body and the mixture of textures and colors that play with contrast. “I live by creating and representing characters that facilitate the staging of everyday life. I work with people, with whom I develop my maximum potential, we find together the originality of each one, the reason to give light and self-awareness, while new works emerge in my moments of solitude, which my unconscious has saved to come out at unexpected moments. … I represent works that connect me with childhood and at the same time with the present, and that without a doubt, my personality finds its voice through there; Psychoanalysis, painting and performance complete me, I give the world my best part”. Her signature is CAOS, by Sánchez-Castro, Nerea CAOS, since as she herself says “The best ideas emerge from CHAOS, but only when you manage to get the apex of exquisiteness out of it, it is good to make mistakes, try and experiment, only then will different and original things emerge”.
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