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Adri Q is a young Afro-Cuban artist born in Cuba, who currently resides and works in Alicante, Spain, living and working in El Campello, Alicante. Her 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 and easily identifiable universe. Her work moves freely between figuration and abstraction. At times it starts from recognizable scenes—musicians, women, dancers, Mediterranean landscapes, animals, or characters belonging to the collective imagination—only to fragment and reconstruct them through chromatic blocks, visual rhythms, and decorative elements. In other works, geometry takes on a greater protagonism and the figure seems to emerge from the very structure of color. One of the most interesting traits 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 they almost always retain a sense of optimism, movement, and luminosity. Color does not function merely as a decorative element: it is one of the main emotional drivers of her painting. Deep blues, reds, yellows, violets, and turquoises combine through direct contrasts and clearly delineated surfaces, generating compositions with a strong visual impact. In her musical works, for example, geometry seems to become rhythm; in her Mediterranean landscapes, light; and in the fantastical scenes, a doorway to an imaginary world. The works currently circulating on Catawiki also show a good reception within the accessible contemporary art market. Her compositions have been selected by various experts on the platform, and pieces with themes as diverse as jazz, Mediterranean scenes, or fantastical 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 means approaching a language that is young, decoratively powerful, and already sufficiently defined to distinguish itself with ease: a particularly valuable quality in a contemporary landscape where developing an individual voice is one of the greatest challenges for any emerging artist. Adri Q ultimately builds a cheerful, sophisticated, and slightly magical pictorial world: a place where everyday reality can be transformed into geometry, music, fantasy, and color. Artwork by Adri Q created in acrylic on high-quality professional canvas. Dimensions: 90 x 120 cm of painting. Original edition. The shipment will be carried out via United Parcel Service (UPS) for Spain and Europe, and via FedEx for the rest of the world. The artwork will be rolled up and protected with multiple layers of packaging, bubble wrap, and placed in a sturdy tube. Once the artwork is paid for, three days are required for the packaging process and delivery to the shipping company. The piece will arrive within ten days, depending on the destination country. “This lot includes AI-generated visualizations. Please refer to the original photographs to verify the artwork’s actual condition.” This work, an acrylic on canvas in Neo-Pop style with strong influences from synthetic cubism and contemporary graphic art, features the stylized portrait of a seated cat that captivates with its intense yellow gaze. The feline figure and surrounding space are decomposed into a complex network of geometric planes and fragmented shapes, each filled with a vibrant and saturated color palette dominated by blues, yellows, reds, and blacks. The piece’s sophistication lies in the intricate juxtaposition of diverse patterns and visual textures, such as dots of various sizes, wavy lines, short strokes, and even small ornamental motifs, creating a dynamic and enveloping visual rhythm. With a firm, clean black line delimiting each section, the painting achieves an exceptional balance between decorative abstraction and figurative representation, conveying a sense of playful vitality and a pop aesthetic of great formal neatness.
Estimate:$669.04
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$669.04
1996 Australia 1/10 oz Gold Lunar Rat (Series I)
12/06/2017
$475
Est: $590

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