La lentitud de la luz. María Lara

An exhibition by the Granada-born painter María Lara on the fifth floor of CentroCentro in Madrid, with a selection of paintings and drawings on light, colour and the structure of her canvases.

The show brings together some forty works, paintings and drawings, spanning the last twenty-five years of the artist's output. She has been described as a painter little known to the public until recently, although her recognition has grown in recent years.

The route focuses on painting itself, without figurative representations or literary references. The canvases are structured through horizontal or vertical bands and intense fields of colour, and attention is directed to format, scale and the relationship between chromatic values and composition. The pieces arise from observing the subtle variations of light in the artist's studio and are built slowly, through careful consideration of colour, its combinations and its rhythms.

The exhibition is designed for those seeking a considered look at abstraction and painterly practice, with a walk through the galleries that allows visitors to compare stages of a single line of research.