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The Royal Botanical Garden hosts until May 22 in the Villanueva Pavilion the exhibition ‘Soledad Sevilla. I’ll call you leafa complete monograph that, through a dozen large-format works, presents some of the most representative pieces of the painter in Madrid. Solitude Seville (Valencia, 1944), who in 2020 received the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts, donated that year a very important part of his artistic production to the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art.
The artist, based between Granada and Madrid, has always felt very close to the Andalusian art scene. In addition, environments such as La Alhambra or El Rompido have served as sources of inspiration for some of her best-known series. The exhibition ‘Soledad Sevilla.
I’ll call you leaf’, curated by Juan Antonio Alvarez Reyes, has a selection of works closely related to the environment in which they are exhibited: the Villanueva Pavilion of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. On the one hand, the tobacco dryers of the Vega de Granada and, on the other, a series of works that have the vegetable walls as a starting point. In both series, abstraction and repetition, characteristic from the beginning of his career, survive and are accentuated to end up providing these landscapes with a certain naturalistic sense.
“Creation is stimulated with the gaze,” says Soledad Sevilla herself, and this is what happened with the vision of the architecture of some dryers, which are the first works to be found in the exhibition itinerary and from which one of the most important pictorial series of his career. As is evident in the long and fruitful career of Soledad Sevilla, constant research and tireless work show that not everything in life is random, since the desire for knowledge and its experience also determine our being and being in the world.
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