Felicidad Moreno

Felicidad Moreno began her career in the eighties, with work that made her into one of the most refreshing painters of the time. Her first works were already framed in geometric abstraction, and between 1985 and 1989, she began to work in series featuring curved lines and black and white contrasts, as if they were a metaphor for the light-darkness duality.

However, hers has been a non-linear trajectory, which revolves around certain painterly constants, with the same recurring elements repeating throughout the development of her work: light, movement and contrast around figures with clear allusions to astronomical or microscopic forms.

Currently, her main allies are colour and the expression of movement. In her canvases, the colours appear in brilliant ranges that move away from more naturalistic palettes, and are spread over the surface using techniques such as dripping and stenciling. However, after experimenting, Felicidad Moreno does not always accept all of her creations as valid, and will reuse the canvases of failed works, letting them show through in some parts. Without a doubt, she is a painter of the unexpected.

Her work appears in many notable Spanish museums and collections, among them the MUSAC in León, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, the La Caixa Collection of Contemporary Art, the Banco de España Collection, the Caja de Burgos CAB and the ARTIUM Collection in Vitoria. Particularly noteworthy was her participation in the collective exhibition “Lo[s] Cinético[s]” held in 2007 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, as well as the individual shows “hypnÓptico” at the MUSAC and “Mundos Dibujados” at the Patio Herreriano.