L o l a p i c ó
Lola Picó: Self-Taught Artist
Born in Barcelona, Lola Picó has dedicated more than three decades to exploring and expanding her creative language. Her artistic career is distinguished by the freedom and authenticity with which she transitions between different forms of expression, always guided by the profound need to transform matter into emotion.
Her career began in her hometown, where she worked for several years as a makeup artist in fashion, advertising, television, and film, specializing in special effects. This experience allowed her to develop a keen sense of color, texture, and composition, which she would later translate powerfully into painting.
Thirty years ago, she settled in Mexico, where she decided to fully dedicate herself to her pictorial work. For two decades, she lived in San Miguel de Allende, where she founded a studio-showroom and was a partner in the Magenta art gallery. During this period, she was represented by curator Edgar Mizraji, with whom she held several exhibitions in major Mexican cities.
Her work has been exhibited in places such as Valle de Bravo, Mexico City, Dolores Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Miguel de Allende, Guadalajara, and Ajijic, among others. Internationally, her work has traveled to the United States (Miami), Italy (Venice), Switzerland (Zurich), and is part of private collections in Canada, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Argentina, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Mexico.
Between 2022 and 2024, she was represented by the Galería de Arte 1819 in Madrid, thus consolidating her presence in Europe.
Currently, Lola is represented by the art galleries Aura Arte online www.aurayarte.com and Galería de arte Sala Marte www.galeriasalamarte.com.
Picó continues to develop new series and prepare exhibitions in different countries in her studio, maintaining a solid career distinguished by its authenticity, constant evolution, and the unmistakable power of her visual language.
Curatorships
Conscious Abstraction
The Art of Lola Picó
Delving into the intangible is no easy task. To abstract, one must first experiment with the material to capture it with mastery and intention. In her canvases, Lola Picó translates feelings to the surface of her work.
Textures and palettes rest on the solid foundation of feeling. Elegant and subtle symbols are introduced into many of her pieces to speak even more about what is being translated from the soul.
In her work, we can observe a constant evolution in her materials and palettes without neglecting her very particular accent.
Picó uses her artistic instinct, developed through years of experience, to great effect in her career, now with invitations to international presentations.
The artist's visual alchemy leads us to rethink our feelings about art and reflect on its value in our lives.
Viviana Trolle
Curator.
Since its emergence in the avant-garde, the great fear of abstract art has been reduced to mere abstraction, to "abstraction without content." Thus, the great question that urgently needs to be addressed—as perfectly summarized by W. J. T. Mitchell—is how a painting without represented objects can have a subject, or, put another way, how the pure forms of paint on canvas are capable of saying something.
In this sense, Lola Picó's work constitutes a successful attempt to link the formal dimension of the pictorial with a content that roots it in a specific meaning and thus frees it from sinking into the abyss of simple decorum. Her abstract works demonstrate a powerful representational thrust that refers them to the landscape.
The question, in this regard, that arises from this statement is self-evident: how do abstract language and landscape relate in Lola Picó's work? Evidently, the simple choice of abstract vocabulary implies an approach to reality through alternative means to the figurative. The visually recognizable aspects of the landscape disappear, giving priority to the tangible—that is, its textures.
In each of his works, Picó opera engages in an exercise in reduction through which the external world merges with the material dimension of the pictorial, thus delivering landscapes of overwhelming concreteness. For this reason, the gaze acquires a haptic sense that allows it to experience even the smallest detail of the material.
PEDRO ALBERTO CRUZ SÁNCHEZ
Curator