Collection
Loto rosa [Pink Lotus]
- 2001
- Acrylic on printed velvet
- 250 x 200 cm
- Cat. P_679
- Acquired in 2002
Throughout Felicidad Moreno's career, her art has oscillated between biomorphism, ornamentation and other formats, supports and materials that cannot be pinned down to any one tradition. Her work reflects, albeit in a veiled or unconscious way, certain feminist elements.
Sergio Rubira has compared her interest in the feminine to that of other artists such as Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. Although in Moreno's art, this tendency appears more formalist than ideological or programmatic, one can clearly sense some attention to visceral suggestions or a certain genital intimacy in works such as her Ondina [Water Nymph] (2000), hollow with no apparent background, sealed in only by its own darkness, and Loto rosa [Pink Lotus] (2001), in which Moreno tends towards an aesthetic of arabesque textile, like a fractal of a whole task historically linked to women, accentuated by the application of velvet and by an insistence on the sinuous. The motif of the floating wet flower, which can also be seen in other works such as Loto [Lotus] (2000, Centre d'Art La Panera Collection, Lleida) is a direct reference to the internal female genitalia viewed in cross section.
Other works by Felicidad Moreno