Maru Quiñonero | Contemporary Art

Maru Quiñonero (1979 · Murcia · Spain)

Lives and works in Madrid.

Art History Degree · Murcia University (1997·2001)

MA Fashion Communication VOGUE · Carlos III University, Madrid (2005·2006)

And of course, dog lover ♡

STATEMENT

When the need, understood as a deep feeling that fills everything, compels, a certain responsibility vanishes and surrender arrives. I've been needing abstraction for years. That's why I've been surrendered to it for years. I paint it, I study it, I think about it, I touch it, I dream about it, I write about it, I look at it. Abstraction goes in my backpack. Comes with me since 2017. I also have studied color as the main element of my work. And I investigate the use of it in both classical and contemporary artists. On the one hand observing the use that society gives to color within popular culture and on the other hand developing in my practice the emotional charge that exceeds the merely material.

Working with color in this emotional way (and guided by the synesthesia that has accompanied me since I was a child) helps me to create “a conversation between color and emptiness”. Six words with which I like to define my work, always with a marked visual cleanliness. Because in my work there will always be an implicit and complicated simplicity. That is why I treasure this quote from Alexander Calder as a premise for my work: “If an artwork has a reason for being, it is enough with very few elements”.

SOLO

"Cielito Lindo" · Voltz Clarke Gallery, New York (US) - 2024

"QY2023" · Duo show ı Alzueta Gallery, Madrid (SP) - May 2023

"Reír y Bailar" · Kitsuné Gallery, New York (US) - March 2023

"Con ruido, no veo" · Yiri Arts, Taipei (TW) - Dec 2022

"Momento" · TheMap, Barcelona (SP) - Sept 2022

"The Need" · Voltz Clarke Gallery, New York (US) - May 2022

"BIEN" · Alzueta Gallery, Madrid (SP) - March 2022

"Verso y Prosa" · Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona (SP) - May 2021

'Lo azul' · Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid (SP) - Oct 2020

'What if?' · Voltz Clarke Gallery, New York (US) - March 2020

'Color and Vacuum' · EG Galería, Madrid (SP) - May 2019