(b. Mexico, 1954) Just as Rimbaud showed us the chromatic range of vowels in poetry, Dalia Monroy lets us hear the musical intensity of colors through her painting. In her paintings, color, and shape are integrated gradually, in a rhythmic way, until the delicate visual geometries explode into suggestive melodies with a soft, lilting, and precise rhythm: the voluptuous rhythm of the danzón. Without needing to use the descriptive capacity of the figure, Dalia Monroy uses the expressive forcefulness of the materials with which she works to create colorful atmospheres full of texture and relief, which make us evoke the intoxicating seduction of the tropics, the night the warm embrace at the center of a track of dance. Dalia Monroy's work is always a fresh invention, constant novation of the symbols of a reflected world transcended by its most elemental forms, a kaleidoscope in whose designs it is possible to guess any aspect of our experience: passion, love, dreams, and the memory of landscapes, architectures, and known beings. Dalia paints with the same emotion with which the first men began to name things. This artist knows that to evoke a bird; you must name it by its colors and song; that is why her painting, like the world, is inhabited by lights and sounds.
Written by Gerardo Estrada.