Monoface Painting

The artist, Victoria Fontana, analyzes our complex personality in her work, in which she proposes a trip inward, to the depths, in order to discover our true complex nature. Her paintings look to reflect what is beautiful and sensitive, even in our most unpleasant human qualities. According to Fontana, beauty is not only found in our acts of solidarity or love. Even the most miserable of behaviors hide a certain sublimity that she proposes in her work. So, as the artist confirms: “I like to reflect the paradoxes and contradictions of human beings, the beauty and the beast we all inevitably have inside us.” In her determination to show these paradoxes, her work ranges from minor distortions to the human figure to a full abstraction. She employs color as her most essential instrument for submerging into the immaterial depths of the soul. The constant flow of hues and forms on her canvasses reflect the intense and changing world of feelings. The colors seem to dance around the canvas to the rhythm of our moods, mixing right before our eyes. According to Victoria Fontana, the spectator is the one who finishes the work, by melding his interior world, her most intimate feelings, with the painting before them: “My objective is to capture the essence of sentient beings by creating sensations and offering the observer an intimate visual experience.” -Pablo Fernández Art & Culture Journalist