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Adri Q is a young Afro-Cuban artist born in Cuba who currently lives and works in Alicante, Spain, living and working in El Campello, Alicante, whose painting arises from the encounter between illustration, geometry, and a deeply contemporary sensibility. Through acrylic on canvas, she has developed a recognizable visual language, characterized by the use of intense colors, flat surfaces, geometric structures, and a rich succession of graphic patterns that turn each composition into a dynamic universe that is easy to identify. Her work moves freely between figuration and abstraction. At times it begins from recognizable scenes — musicians, women, dancers, Mediterranean landscapes, animals, or characters belonging to the collective imagination — only to fragment them and reconstruct them through color blocks, visual rhythms, and decorative elements. In other works, geometry plays a greater starring role and the figure seems to emerge from the very structure of color. One of the most interesting features of her work is precisely that ability to maintain a constant identity within a very broad theme. The Mediterranean, music, nature, literature, fantasy, and daily life coexist within the same plastic universe. Her scenes can be intimate, playful, or contemplative, but almost always retain a sense of optimism, movement, and luminosity. Color does not function solely as a decorative element: it is one of the main emotional drivers of her painting. Deep blues, reds, yellows, purples, and turquoises are combined through direct contrasts and clearly defined surfaces, generating visually impactful compositions. In her musical works, for example, geometry seems to become rhythm; in her Mediterranean landscapes, light; and in the fantastical scenes, a door to an imaginary world. The works currently circulating on Catawiki also show a strong reception within the accessible contemporary art market. Her compositions have been selected by different experts on the platform, and pieces with themes as diverse as jazz, Mediterranean scenes, or fantastic figures maintain a perfectly recognizable visual identity. That progressive recognition is especially interesting in an artist who is still building her career. Collecting her work brings you closer to a young, decoratively powerful language that is already sufficiently defined to distinguish itself with ease: a particularly valuable quality in a contemporary scene where developing an own voice constitutes one of the greatest challenges for any emerging artist. Adri Q ultimately constructs a cheerful, sophisticated, and slightly magical pictorial world: a place where everyday reality can transform into geometry, music, fantasy, and color. Artwork by Adri Q created in acrylic on high-quality professional canvas. Dimension 90 x 120 cm of painting. Original edition. Shipping will be carried out via United Parcel Service (UPS) for Spain and Europe, and via FedEx for the rest of the world. The work will be rolled and protected with multiple layers of packaging, bubble wrap, and placed in a sturdy tube. Once the work is paid for, three days are required for the packaging process and delivery to the shipping company. The piece will reach you within ten days, depending on the destination country. “This lot contains visualizations produced with AI. Please consult the original photographs to verify the actual condition of the work.” This acrylic-on-canvas work reinterprets the iconic narrative of The Little Prince through an aesthetic proposal framed in illustrative pop and geometric abstraction. The composition features the young protagonist alongside his beloved fox and the famous rose under a crystal dome, placed on a surface fragmented into multicolored patches with varied textile and graphic patterns. With a deep blue background sprinkled with stars, vibrant planets, and the moving silhouette of his yellow scarf, the canvas uses a captivating play of light and chromatic contrasts to poetically convey the lyricism, contemplation, and magic of the literary universe.
Estimate:£423.61
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Estimate:
£423.61
1996 Australia 1/10 oz Gold Lunar Rat (Series I)
12/06/2017
£351.02
Est: £436.01

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