"Tal com raja" by Olga Pérez Montes at the Valvi Foundation

Olga Pérez Montes (Barcelona, 1960) presented this past July 6 at 7:00 p.m. her latest work entitled Tal com raja in the Sala Miquel Martí i Pol of the Fundació Valvi in Girona.

The presentation was made by Jaume Geli, artist, and Maguí Noguer, director, and then an action by the artist herself entitled A sea of books was carried out. As parallel activities to this exhibition, three guided tours have been scheduled on July 14, 18 and Monday, September 4, accompanied by concerts by the Musicart duo Albert Dondarza, on violin and piano, Tomàs Pujol, on electric bass and as moderator Enric Tubert, art historian.

The Valvi Foundation exhibits this very direct, fresh and communicative painting exhibition, just like the artist, Olga Pérez Montes. Pérez has lived in Crespià for twenty-five years, but he has strong roots in his islands of Menorca and Formentera. The fact that in her family she is surrounded by professional jazz musicians and writers, means that her work always permeates music and books. Pérez holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, in 1984, specializing in painting and has exhibited in different cities, individually and collectively, such as Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Seville, Girona, and Balearic Islands (Menorca and Formentera especially).

In this exhibition, the painter's motivation revolves around the importance of books in people's lives, more specifically, she pays tribute to women, women readers.

In his current painting we can appreciate how the artist now makes broad, generous brushstrokes, determined to formalize spaces. The color stains like sea water at each arrival on the sand; the pigment mixes with the liquid and becomes fluid, it runs through the fabric like watercolor paper, the chromatic dance is choreographed without prior drawing on the large format, only from the reference of the paper, small, that the originated, or from memory. And when this dance ends, the music appears: the calligraphy, the drawing is painted in color, with a fine brush, now also with measure, and gives shape to characters, objects and scenes: books, quotes, readers and journeys . Some of the works made with acrylic on canvas that should be highlighted are: Un Vermouth, Powerful grandmothers, Thirst for knowledge, Vision is the art of seeing invisible things, Young man reading near the sea, La vie en rose, etc. .

The exhibition can be visited from 4 to 31 July and from 1 to 9 September 2023, as the Foundation will be closed to the public in August.