"On the sixth floor of Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, a selection of nude drawings, almost all of them female bodies, by the artist Blanca Domínguez was shown during the first week of June, as a result of the sessions used by its author in making sketches of the models in different poses. The presentation of the drawings in the same space delimited by a simple frame (grouped by pairs of medium format and in line of four small ones), as was done in the past with sketches of paintings and family photographs or portraits, it's probably due to the artist's interest in the variations of the same models, which is why she has rightly divided her drawings into series: Ink Bodies and Pastel Bodies. Drawings are drawn quickly and assertivity, without stopping in anecdotal detail or in naturalism. Unfinished bodies, showing complete vital and aesthetic experience, intentionally deformed far removed from both academic naturalism and current stereotypes to represent the naked human body in consumer culture. Bodies transformed into ink spots, shadows that acquire volume and weight and become bodies in Ink Bodies series; bodies outlined by firm lines, thin and thick, traced with pastel in the other series, some of which remind us, fortunately, drawings by Rodin and Schiele."
Ángel Llorente Hernández
PhD in History of art, curator of exhibitions, honorary professor of the UCM (Faculty of Fine Arts)
