Mina Nagao

The eye is in rapture at the formal and chromatic diversification that the artist applies within her works. "Creation" is emblematic of this feeling of liberation and the need for the creative act. High waves of color follow one another side by side, creating a veritable chromatic vortex. The light blue pigment is clothed in brownish and sometimes pinkish hues. The rhythm is tight, the speed concussive. Gradually, the wave motion expands and within it we glimpse a light source. A golden spot peeps out of the amorphous chromatic sea. It is she, the shimmering, labile creative intuition. And mina, this glow of inventiveness grasps it wholeheartedly, without flinching. From this moment, the artist gives all her inwardness and gestures to the goddess of art, producing highly expressive works characterized by unusual chromatic and formal expedients. "Ego" is a swirl of colors and sensations. The layering of pigment produces a violent yet vivid chromatic outcome. Chromatic ghosts rise from the background. Greenish, yellowish, red, and fuchsia pigments follow one another, creating an extremely diverse and heterogeneous mass of color. This sense of a multifaceted element is intuitively mitigated by the presence of a subtle scratch that winds its way through the entire color cloud. Curves, parabolas, straights, peaks and troughs go to form the outcome of an inhomogeneous electrocardiogram that unifies the entire work. The result is thus a compositional unicum that is a direct representation of the artist's interiority. "Ego" mirrors Mina and is but one of the many images that make up her heart. Images that, after a period of stillness emerge with the force of an explosion, coloring themselves with pigment.