Sol Llanos
Since my first brushstroke, I have been caught in a constant dialogue with geometry. My shapes, my colors, my features are an echo of two great masters: Yayoi Kusama, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Rothko, Hilma Af Klint or Wassily Kandinsky, whose works revealed to me that geometric abstraction is, in essence, a universal language.
That February 14, 2008 in Munich, enveloped in the contemplation of Rothko’s great canvases, I received the news of my grandfather’s death. He, my mentor, my guide, who taught me that each stroke tells a story and each color evokes an emotion. In that instant, between vibrant tones and the softness of empty spaces, I felt that death was not an end, but a transition. The geometry that I loved so much became my refuge, my squares and rectangles, lines and points, into bearers of an inexplicable peace, a deep connection with the eternal.
Since then, each work that is born from my hands is a tribute to balance and harmony, a bridge to the very essence of existence. Like Rothko, I seek to have my colors evoke a transcendental dialogue; like Kandinsky, I strive to capture the ineffable.
Each square I draw is a window to a higher plane.
In the end, art is my legacy, the gift that my grandfather left in me: an invitation to explore, to feel, to transcend.
According to Interiores magazine in its article “Essential design and art events in Spain this autumn”:
“The first of these exhibitions is ‘Summer Moons’, from the exhibition of the artist Sol Llanos which, as we have already mentioned, can be visited until September 30 at the Doce Botellas café-bar, in the Justicia neighborhood of Madrid. Her fourteen works – all abstract, geometric and full of color – are conceived as luminous stimuli capable of transforming the emotional environment of a space.
Llanos argues that “geometry is order and color is life”, and her compositions demonstrate this by generating calm and optimism in equal parts. With a style that recalls the Bauhaus school, but with a contemporary pulse, her work functions both in residential interiors and in contract projects that seek energy balance.”
