Pi Monleón's work seems inspired by a fusion of natural history and science fiction that combine in paintings that convey the beautiful revolution of movement, space and time.
From the point of view of Taoist philosophy, natural forms are not made, but grow, and these works are like a natural, organic (as opposed to mechanical) expansion.
I resort to the Taoist reference because the things that are made, such as houses, furniture and machines, are a set of pieces put together, assembled or molded, from the outside to the inside; But things that grow, such as Monleón's works, are formed from the inside out, they are not sets of originally different parts, they are distributed across the support, they elaborate their own structure from the whole to the parts, from the simple to the complex .
Surely each one of the paintings obeys a premeditated compositional plan, a distribution of colors and volumes; I am not subtracting conceptuality from the work, but the result is not something built, based on materials and tools, they are cultivated works like a flower or a tree, but with the seeds of color and aesthetics.
The result is a work that emerges from simple processes, from logical decisions, to end in a living, complex composition.
They also suggest hidden worlds, microscopic or spatial. Organic macro and micro occurrences that are in constant course, natural progressions that belong to the passage of time.
Abstract art with a raw, almost telepathic sensibility, and vibrant emotion. Paintings that smell of a certain inner familiarity, of something very fundamental and essential in our lives, of the organic complexities that surround us, sometimes serenely, sometimes as complex layered systems of disintegration and destruction.
Returning to the Taoist reference, all life responds to the primitive, tangible evolution of our planet, only that some, like Pilar Monleón, are a little closer to the source. I would ask the viewer to position themselves before the work and integrate into the strange evolving shapes that resemble sea anemones. You can then feel part of the evolution of the world, or choose to let your imagination run wild and dream that you are in an alternate alien space. In any case, enjoy a surreal and immersive experience of the genesis of the world around you.
Joan Feliu Universitat Jaume I
