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Nerea CaosThe Woman Who Smiles Without Reason oil on canvas painting2025
2025
About the Item
Artist: Nerea Caos
Title: The Woman Who Smiles Without Reason
Year: 2025
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19.7 x 15.7 in (50 x 40 cm)
Framing: Unframed
Style: Abstract Expressionism
Signature: On the reverse, signed "CAOS"
Artwork Description
The Woman Who Smiles Without Reason is a vibrant and emotional piece, filled with symbolism and energetic strokes. Nerea Caos employs a bold color palette dominated by red, yellow, and black, with a dark background that highlights the free, textured brushstrokes. The composition suggests a central figure, possibly a fragmented female face, hovering between abstraction and figurative representation. The dissociated forms and striking color contrasts create a sense of movement and inner tension, inviting the viewer to interpret the emotional state of the depicted figure.
This work embodies Nerea’s approach of exploring the unconscious and emotional world through art, blending her psychoanalytical background with her passion for abstract expressionism.
Artist Biography
Nerea Caos, born Nerea Sánchez Castro in Ferrol, Galicia, in 1993, is a Spanish artist and psychoanalyst. From an early age, she showed great interest in art, training in disciplines such as painting and performance. At the age of 21, she moved to Barcelona, where she studied Psychoanalysis at the Escuela de Psicoanálisis de Barcelona, a profession she currently practices.
She lives in Sitges, a town that inspires her with its Mediterranean light, natural landscapes, and cosmopolitan artistic community. Her work is rooted in abstract expressionism, marked by her ability to convey conscious and unconscious emotions through an intense color palette and fragmented forms.
Nerea signs her works as “CAOS,” an acronym of her surnames and a reflection of her creative vision: the best ideas emerge from chaos when a touch of refinement is extracted from it.
Comparable Artists
Nerea Caos’s work can be compared to that of other renowned artists who explore emotional states through abstract expressionism:
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Known for his expressive brushwork and intense use of color.
Francis Bacon – For the distortion of human forms and depiction of intense emotional states.
Cy Twombly – For the gestural freedom of his strokes and emphasis on raw expression.
Antoni Tàpies – For the incorporation of textures and contrasts, echoing informalist art.
- Creator:Nerea Caos (1993, Spanish)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Barcelona, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1155215797192
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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