Fernanda Brunet exhibits a sample of her liquid, feminine and free painting

I investigate my feminine condition and relate it to a freer painting or, as I call it, a liquid painting, capable of expressing desire without ties, both in the daily life of the female body and in the physical condition of the painting.he expressed in an interview with The Day the painter Fernanda Brunet.

The artist inaugurated her new exhibition, A form of desire, in the Ramón Alva de la Canal gallery, in Xalapa, Veracruz. The exhibition brings together three decades of artistic exploration, which have placed it as a reference in the contemporary Mexican painting scene.

Brunet mentioned that upon reviewing these 30 years of work he realized that his creative production reflects a deep connection with the stages of his life. Each series is a little different from the other, in the themes, the colors and the way paint is used. These changes are related to what I am experiencing.

She stated that since her beginnings, her creations have been part of an investigation into how women are represented visually, and that led me to question what we accept from patterns that are socially imposed.

He said that through the use of color and large formats he has explored the theme of desire, sexuality and pornography, and it is not very common for women to represent the right to pleasure, to feel.

Multiplicity and coherence

The exhibition brings together 50 pieces, among which a wide variety of plastic explorations stand out, including oil painting, acrylic and mixed techniques, metal engraving, screen printing, textiles with natural and artificial fibers, ceramics and drawing.

Christian Barragán, curator of the exhibition, highlighted Brunet’s ability to combine techniques and supports in a coherent discourse. “Through this multiplicity, the artist has created a postulate about nature, the human body and desire.

His work appeals to a painting with its own presence and scale, where our human dimension is confronted, dislocating the perception of ourselves and the environment.he explained.

Brunet trained in plastic arts at the La Esmeralda National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, and as a ceramist, at the San Carlos Academy. She studied at the Arts Student League in New York and has been awarded the scholarship from the National System of Art Creators (formerly Fonca) on three occasions, the most recent in 2024.

Through his painting he has left a significant mark on the contemporary art scene on a national and international scale, exhibiting in individual and group exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, the United States, Colombia, Hong Kong, Belgium and Costa Rica.

His work includes naturalistic motifs and strident visions that, according to Barragán, challenge the observer’s perception with the purpose of abstract it from everyday monotony and of express desire without ties.

They highlight pieces that push to the limit the possibilities offered by their medium in terms of composition, formats, scales and strident chromatic variables. Unconventional material resources and the expressionist charge of his brushwork are also incorporated.

For Santiago Pérez Garci, gallery coordinator, the exhibition It will allow us to recognize one of the most relevant and powerful drifts in the current scene of Mexican painting, which does not exhaust its resources, possibilities of creation and conceptual and aesthetic arguments in the panorama of contemporary art..

What excites the painter most about the exhibition in Xalapa, Veracruz, is the appeal that the public sees in her work: I perceive great interest in seeing different things, many young people go, they ask a lot. There is a genuine curiosity to understand what I do and why..

Brunet’s pieces make up important private and institutional collections, such as those of the Latin American art museums of Los Angeles, San Diego and Brooklyn, as well as the Collection Jumex and Peter Stuyvesant foundations, among others.

An element that predominates in its exhibitions is the unique dialogue that it fosters between the languages ​​of figuration and abstraction.

Perhaps what encourages Brunet’s perseverance in art is his fascination with the underside of the human body, along with the silent sonority of colors and the slow flow of paint on the canvas; even the sublime horror of recognizing ourselves in the amorphousBarragán added.

Con A form of desire, The university campus concludes its cycle of exhibitions registered in the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Universidad Veracruzana and its 2024 exhibition program.

The exhibition will remain until February at the Ramón Alva de la Canal gallery (Xalapeños Ilustres 86, Centro, Xalapa de Enríquez, Veracruz).