CHROMATIC SPLENDOR, THE MULTIPLE LAYERS OF ANA MONTIEL

Color is the mother tongue of the unconscious mind.

— Carl Gustav Jung

Spanish artist, Ana Montiel has a myriad of obsessions. Obsessions or recurrent topics, both in her artistic practice and her everyday life. Astrology and celestial bodies, tarot, marlin tacos, neuroscience, herbs and their properties, music to dance to or to hear sitting, synesthesia, old-age cats, shapes and color fields.

Montiel’s relationship with color oscillates between absolute erudition and primitivism, between the complex and the simple. She does not perceive color as a solid surface, she associates, without prejudice, the different tones and gradients with sensations or moments, with emotions, or with objects without names. Layers of hues run through her canvases like white noise, emerging from the depths to disappear again, generating different narratives for each viewer. One can spend hours standing in front of one of her Fields, waiting for the cloud of color that created all that frenzy a few minutes before, to happen again, and again and again.