This Valentine's Day, forget about Cupid and fall in love with ART 01/25 - 02/16/2025

Valentine 's Day is approaching, and with it, the search for the perfect gift. This year, break with the tradition of giving perfume and discover how ART can be the key to showing and transmitting LOVE . Although, let's be honest, it is also a day that many people hate.

We tend to associate Valentine's Day with stale romantic love , with cheap dinners or with teddy bears. But this day, in its origins , was the commemoration of the good works carried out by Saint Valentine of Rome, which are related to the universal concept of love and affection and had nothing to do with an imposed ideal of romantic love.

We like to celebrate everything that has to do with love , but looking much further: love for children, for friends, love for oneself and even, why not, heartbreak, which, after all, is another stage of love. That's why we wanted to choose works of art for Valentine's Day by Eva Armisén and Juli About that symbolize and show all the types of love that exist and that you can give or give yourself, depending on what you feel like.

Eva Armisén, known as an “artist who draws happiness” , is popular for her warm paintings that show love for family and for oneself. In the series Latidos she talks about loving from different points of view.

His work focuses on capturing daily life and the mundane as something extraordinary, offering a vital and optimistic view that transports us to a habitable world full of emotion.

Painting and engraving are the artist's most common media, but the originality and ability to communicate of her work has led Armisén to collaborate on very varied projects such as public art installations, advertising campaigns, film and television, and publishing projects.

 

Juli About is an expert in ceramics and especially enjoys experimenting with contrasts. The hearts, a series she began after the loss of her mother, helps her heal wounds, overcome fears, grow... in short, to live.

Working with porcelain means dealing with the inherent fragility of the material, but also with the fragility of our being in the world. It is a material that needs to be cared for, and that invites us to care for the world.