Connections 2 Print

Yolanda Luna was born in Madrid on September 22, 1959 in the Madrid neighborhood of Chamberí. Since her childhood she was passionate about painting, teaching at the San Diego and San Vicente de Paúl school located on Eduardo Dato Street. At that time she was already pointing out ways with pencil drawings and watercolors, becoming interested in landscapes and figures. Painting for Yolanda Luna is an axis that gives meaning to her emotional balance. It is escape and visceral sustenance in her particular creative world. The act of painting provokes a vital energy in her that nourishes her artistic vision. Through painting, Luna turns to the blank canvas as a desire for a personal encounter and to explore new sensations. Yolanda Luna began as a traditional painter copying and drawing from reality and striving to resemble the great masters mainly impressionists, until she felt a void in the interpretation and in the “copying” process, she needed a change towards something that would make her feel more free and creative, which meant reinterpreting her world. She looked at the paintings of the great artists, at small fragments of the works, she delved into elements of detail, in stains, in lines, in the purity of color and that made her set out to break all her schemes and delve into the abstraction. It is difficult to define Yolanda Luna's work; we could say that it is an expressionist lyrical abstraction. Abstraction gives the possibility of reinterpreting reality as an emotional state. Its color, stain and fluids lead her to playfully discover textures and visual fragments that surprise her and give her a new vision of things. She is always observing the light and also the shadows (like Junichiró Tanizaki) and the tonality that leads to color as a motif. Before starting a work she already has a main and a secondary color in mind, after the process has started things can change. She works in parallel, two or three works at a time to advance while the drying processes take place.