3-A Gallery, CICA Museum
January 4 – 8, 2023
2023.01.04 – 08
Earthly Bodies
These artworks at CICA museum are a continuation of my artistry of exploring warm and earthly colors in movement with structured elements from a fragmented lens. The reduction and fragmentation of geometric and biomorphic shapes that are associated with masculine and feminine ideas, are important concepts, as they are connected to ideas of mysticism, femininity, and nature. I often use abstract forms and subtle colors to play with ideas of movement and balance. These artworks also explore ideas of nature and our relation to it from an emotional and internal perspective.
Maria Granadino is a visual artist whose work is distinguished by its abstract and contemporary approach to different influences, from geometric shapes to the fluidity of modernist art. Born in Sweden with a multicultural heritage and Indigenous identity, that delicately influences the art, she started her professional career as an artist in 2016, after graduating from Regent’s University London – with an interdisciplinary B.A. (Hons) in art and media. Her work has been exhibited in various countries, such as the United Kingdom, the U.S.A., Taiwan and Sweden.
Drawing on influences such as fragmentation, the subconscious, and the balance of nature – a play between soft and structured shapes. Other references are everyday experience, spirituality, music, and myth through an abstract lens. Her work is also rooted in the tradition of avant-garde movements of the early 1900s but also influenced by neolithic art, Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art, and more.
