Merche González (Megon) is a self-taught Spanish artist whose work explores memory, transformation and human relationships through painting and mixed media. Moving between realism and abstraction, she works with fabric, cardboard, stone and reclaimed objects. She uses colour to bring...
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Merche González (Megon) is a self-taught Spanish artist whose work explores memory, transformation and human relationships through painting and mixed media. Moving between realism and abstraction, she works with fabric, cardboard, stone and reclaimed objects. She uses colour to bring out the texture of a surface, accentuate a fold or concentrate tension within a composition.
González is drawn to the traces that materials retain from their previous use. In Telas y vínculos (Fabrics and Bonds), she folds, knots and stretches fabric to explore the fragility and resilience of human bonds. In her abstract structures, she works with the spaces between materials as much as with the materials themselves. In figurative works such as Decisión and Libertad, she brings that same attention to colour, texture and relief to the human figure.
González has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, and her work is held in private collections in France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Saudi Arabia. Her work has been selected for international art competitions, and she received the NY20+ Special Prize at Arte Laguna Prize.
