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Soledad Sevilla: Written in the celestial bodies at the Museo Reina Sofia

MADRID.- Since she began her career at the end of the 1960s, when she participated in the Seminar on Automatic Generation of Plastic Forms held at the Computing Centre of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Soledad Sevilla (Valencia, 1944) has explored the relationship between light, matter and space, combining analytical rigor and geometric order with a search for a sensorial and organic experience. Her works possess an internal poetic logic that makes them singular. Playing an important role in them are the evocation of the intangible, reflection on time and language, the presence of the paradoxical and investigation into the perceptive conditions of the senses. Over time Soledad Sevilla moved from a style of painting that was serial and geometric (although always impregnated by small gestures and imprecisions that personalized and humanized it), to a more lyrical abstraction that seeks complicity between