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Nerea CaosNeo Expressionist Psychological Face Fragment Moon Oil Canvas Painting Abstract2023
2023
About the Item
Neo-Expressionist Psychological Face Fragment Moon Portrait Oil Painting
Oil on canvas
Height: 20 cm (7.88 in)
Width: 20 cm (7.88 in)
Unframed
Signed verso
Executed in 2023
Excellent condition
Original artwork
A striking neo-expressionist psychological portrait fragment exploring the hidden “dark side of the moon” of the human face through gesture, texture, and chromatic tension.
Built on a deep nocturnal surface activated by flashes of electric pink, violet, and acid yellow, the composition reveals a face emerging from abstraction like a memory surfacing through shadow. The image oscillates between presence and disappearance, inviting the viewer to participate in the act of perception.
The work belongs to a contemporary line of European expressive painting rooted in the legacy of post-war psychological figuration while remaining visually aligned with current collectors’ interest in intimate scale emotional abstraction.
Despite its compact format, the painting delivers a strong wall presence and works especially well in curated group hangings, modern interiors, and collector-driven salon compositions.
An excellent example of emerging Spanish neo-expressionist painting connected to themes of subconscious imagery, identity fragmentation, and emotional surface mapping.
ARTIST BIO
Nerea Caos (born 1993) is a Spanish contemporary painter working between Barcelona and Sitges. Her practice merges psychoanalytic research, performance sensitivity, and gestural painting into a personal visual language situated within contemporary abstract expressionism.
Her work explores subconscious structures through fragmented body imagery, layered textures, and chromatic contrasts that function as emotional signals rather than descriptive elements.
Living near the Mediterranean light environment that historically influenced generations of modern painters, Caos develops a distinctive intimate-scale psychological abstraction that resonates with current European expressive painting trends.
This work relates to the expressive portrait fragment tradition seen in:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Antonio Saura
Georg Baselitz
Marlene Dumas
Jean Dubuffet
Cy Twombly (late figural traces)
Collectors interested in contemporary psychological figuration and neo-expressionist portrait abstraction will immediately recognize its visual lineage.
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- Creator:Nerea Caos (1993, Spanish)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Sitges, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1155211980602
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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