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Nerea CaosRound Neo Expressionist Abstract Skull Painting Contemporary Spanish Oil tondo2022
2022
About the Item
Round Neo Expressionist Abstract Skull Painting Contemporary Spanish Oil on Canvas Tondo Format
Artist: Nerea Caos (b. 1993)
Title: Halloween
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2022
Signature: Signed verso
Condition: Excellent condition
Frame: Unframed
Dimensions: Diameter 40 cm (15.75 in)
DESCRIPTION
Expressive circular composition titled Halloween, painted in 2022 by Spanish contemporary artist Nerea Caos. Executed in oil on canvas in a rare tondo format, the work presents an intense gestural face oscillating between mask, skull and fragmented portrait presence. The layered brushwork and chromatic tension between pink, black and acid tonalities create a psychologically charged surface characteristic of contemporary neo-expressionist figuration. The circular structure reinforces the symbolic and introspective nature of the image, transforming the figure into an archetypal presence suspended between abstraction and identity.
ARTIST BIO
Nerea Caos (Ferrol, 1993) is a Spanish contemporary artist based in Sitges whose work explores the intersection between psychoanalysis, performance and expressive painting. Her practice investigates the fragmentation of the human figure and the emergence of unconscious imagery through gestural mark-making and layered color structures. Influenced by both Mediterranean light and psychological narrative traditions, her paintings develop a visual language positioned between figurative expressionism and abstract emotional construction.
ARTISTIC CONTEXT / INSPIRATION
The expressive treatment of the face in this work connects with the legacy of European and American neo-expressionist painting developed by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel, while the psychological intensity of the image also resonates with earlier portrait distortions explored by Francis Bacon and Jean Dubuffet. The circular composition reinforces its symbolic presence and recalls the archetypal figure tradition present in modern expressionist painting associated with artists such as Karel Appel and Asger Jorn within the CoBrA movement. The combination of gestural immediacy and subconscious imagery situates the work within the broader lineage of contemporary expressionist figurative abstraction.
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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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