Maria Antonia Hernández Subirachs

MARIA ANTONIA HERNÁNDEZ I SUBIRACHS (Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona, 1961).
Untitled.
Oil on canvas.
Certificate of authenticity included.
Measurements: 162 x 130 cm.

The large format enhances the immersive quality of this composition, in which Maria Antonia Hernández Subirachs takes the landscape into a realm bordering on abstraction. The artist constructs a space with an organic appearance through expansive pink, earthy, and grayish surfaces, interspersed with transparencies and fluid brushstrokes that blur any precise spatial reference. The succession of dark dots introduces a very marked rhythm to the large central form and is marked by gestural freedom in the rest of the surface. The result reflects a conception of landscape that is more sensory than descriptive, where color, material, and void acquire autonomy and nature becomes the starting point for the pictorial construction.

With a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, Hernández Subirachs has developed a career centered on painting and is particularly interested in landscape, light, and the expressive possibilities of color. She has been selected for competitions such as the Joan Miró International Drawing Prize, the Ynglada Guillot Prize, and the Sala Parés Young Artists’ Painting Prize, and has twice won the Raimond Maragall Prize from the same gallery. She has held solo exhibitions at venues such as Espai (b), Espai Tectum, and the Palau Falguera in Sant Feliu de Llobregat.