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My work represents magical realism, where magic and fantasy are interwoven with reality. The girl is observing chess board where the actual chess figures mingle with "alebrijes" (half - animal and half - monster). One can feel tension and some nostalgia... Painting is made in traditional way using brushes and oil paints on canvas. WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF Oil paintings by Monika Gabrys at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY) Monika Gabrys’ paintings are far from being inspired by the urge to please the public, although, indisputably, they are thought to enter into a dialogue. Therefore there is an implicit respect for the public, respect that comes from her expressive needs. The symbols with which she constructs her scenes are put there in favor of the emotions that govern each painting. Sometimes flirting with surrealism, sometimes with expressionism, she rescues life experiences by the very necessity of fixing them for herself, but at the same time she shares them in hope of finding empathy or awakening in us an emotional memory of the same category. But what is new about it? Is that not the same procedure every artist follows? That is affirmative; however, the scope of her powerful messages comes to us thanks to an excellent and sophisticate painting technique, which we can observe not only on her figurative paintings, but above of all, on her abstract ones, and also natural but careful development of a very personal style. This set of attributes place us, without a doubt, in front of the MASTERPIECES OF ARTWORKS of the real MASTER, with enough arguments to prove these qualifiers; and all of this put us facing the whole discourse of a singular, complex, multicultural and attractive life, which she has laid out on her canvases. In the collection of oil paintings, created during last few years, her own self-image wanders as a creative pretext, as well as the figures of close to her, beloved people and others belonging to legends and stories, immersed in stylized environments, all of this interwoven in compositions and palette of colors very typical and proper to Monika Gabrys. This way of painting, devoid of common places, makes her stand out of the artistic environment of our region, inviting us to follow her path, which seems to be each day more complete and close to different circles of art and culture in Mexico and other parts of the world. (Jose Luis Rumbo)