From October 30, 2024 to March 30, 2025
Dominica Sánchez: Here and Now aims to be a declaration of intent by the artist and also by El Principal de Còrsega, which officially begins its journey with this exhibition.
Dominica Sánchez (Barcelona, 1945) began drawing and painting at a very young age. In fact, as a teenager, she decided that she wanted to make it her profession and her life. Since then, she has worked with tenacity, conviction, and, above all, emotion. It has been a vital necessity that emerges from her very core. If I had to make a comparison, I would say that Dominica is like a half-awake volcano that exudes lava-passion through her works. Techniques, shapes, and colours come together to express feelings and sensations. These pastels and charcoal pencils, these colours… they all betray her. Even the blacks are born from emotion.
I would like to quote the words of the great Maria Lluïsa Borràs, who supported Dominica from her first exhibitions and described her works as a collection of “inner landscapes”, “intimate and spiritual landscapes”, characterised by poetry and introspection, even mysticism.
One day Dominica told me: “People think my art is abstract, but it’s not.” Indeed, beneath an appearance of geometric forms, Dominica’s drawings, paintings, and even sculptures — because for her everything follows the same language — stem from nature, reality, her childhood and youth memories (like the bullring in the Monumental, where she visited often as a child), the human figure (which is why most of her works have a vertical format), from life itself, ultimately.
Her work has been recognised and supported by the best national galleries (Artur Ramon, Paco Rebés, Marita Segovia…) and international ones (Denise Levy, Dominique Haim Chanin), as well as by specialised critics. However, perhaps due to her own way of being and working, in the silence of her home-studio, she is not as well known to the general public as she deserves. As is the case with many artists from her generation and the ones immediately before, Dominica Sánchez’s work deserves to be rediscovered, re-examined, and appreciated, just as she does every day, since she has never stopped drawing, painting, and sculpting. It is an honour for El Principal de Còrsega that she has agreed to present herself within its humble walls.