MERY GLEZ: METAPHYSICAL WOMEN
The paintings of Mery Glez focuses on femininity.
Each image represents women
in different spiritual states or moods.
They are filled with contemplation
and introspection. They look like they are in
deep psychological reflection.
For their life condition? For their sociological
condition? As women? Women
standing, sitting or posing for an invisible
spectator.
They do not have faces or
specific expression. Glez composed them in this
particular
way to eliminate
any anecdotic expression. Placing the body and
its
surroundings as the strength
of the message. Other paintings show a mother
and
child, mother and children,
as sucedaneous themes of the feminine and of
maternal
love.
Glez states in her
works the axial importance of women as main
subjects,
women as the key to the
world.
Glez's women become metaphysical entities, full
of
determination and
strength. They sit or stand in a calmly posture,
silently confirming their undefeated
personalities. Their bodies are subtle and
sensuous.
They are marked with
simple lines of contours where the anatomy is
minimal.
There are no details in the
body; it will be superfluous and unnecessary
because
what prevails is a
mystical allure of the feminine soul.
Glez uses translucent and pastel colors that
create
a magical atmosphere.
Soft pinks or blues dominate over the ambiance.
But suddenly contra pose with
warm reds and oranges that appear in the
background.
The artist proposes a sort
of chromatic chart where soft colors symbolize
calm
and tenderness, and strong
colors allude to strong emotions. Both
attributes
correspond to femininity.
In the painting what dominates is a transparent
light
over which delineates
the different women. It is a metaphor for
enlightment
and clarity in the
women's condition.
A constructivist matrix defines the background
with geometric shapes. This
geometric structure opposes the sinuous and
sensual
curves of the bodies in the
foreground. These two opposite lines enhance the
rhythm of the composition.
There are windows and frames that open the space
ad infinitum. The background
becomes vast and aerial. The multiple
intercrossing
lines create a linear
perspective of two or more focal points transforming
the space in a complex and busy
environment. In a dialogue with the abstract art,
Glez
adds pyramidal and
rectangular forms to the scene. The tableau
becomes
figurative-narrative and non-objective forms.
Mery Glez is an accomplished painter who has worked
with many themes and
techniques throughout her life. At this time
she opens a
new cycle of her career
and states the meaningful role and function
of Women.
Milagros Bello, Ph.D.
Miami based art critic
