Eva Poyato’s biography (at least the public one) is as minimal as her prints. A date and a placeof birth is as much information as anyone is likely to find about her. Yet, her artwork speaks volumes about her personality, her thoughts and her dreams.
A multi talented artist by nature and printer by choice, Poyato has developed a body of work that focuses on austere landscapes and solitary objects.Over the course of her career, she has made incursions in almost every possible discipline: sculpture, painting, printmaking and even illustration.
She is the co-founder of the printing studio "La Persiana Naranja" in the mediterranean city of Murcia where she lives and works. This is an area blessed with a mild climate all year round, where sunshine is a daily treat and gardens grow lush. It is very surprising that her surroundings are such a complete opposite to the barren landscapes in her artwork. However, understanding this apparent contradiction is, in fact, appreciating the depth of her work and its significance.
In her series titled “In No-Man’s Land”, checkered houses stand against a low and desolate horizon. Tall and silent, the houses stand side by side or tilt ever so slightly perhaps burdened by invisible misfortunes and the sheer weight of sadness. In “Lightning” two houses recoil having been hit by a silver, zig-zagging bolt of lightning while in “The Skylight” a powerful, hopeful ray of sun enters a house to shed light on everything within it.
The absence of humans (only implied by the existence of the houses) speaks of disconnection and loneliness. The outside, the common spaces, are unwelcoming and inhospitable. Perhaps, humans have succeeded in creating too hazardous of an environment for themselves and are now relegated to their narrow dwellings. A man-made, self-inflicted punishment...
Her work is not only elegant and authentic, but it also comes with a dose of honesty quite infrequent in today's art world. Eva Poyato is a young artist whose work transcends trends and repudiates gimmicks.
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