105 - LLUÍS COTS (Barcelona, 1946).

LLUÍS COTS (Barcelona, 1946). “The Birth of Aphrodite,” 2026. Work on paper No. 29. Watercolor on Canson paper. Certificate of authenticity included. Measurements: 50 x 33 cm. In Lluís Cots’s paintings, the reinterpretation of symbolic and mythological motifs finds a language of great expressive freedom. In this work, the artist depicts the birth of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, through a gestural style that blends into a network of chromatic patches and strokes. The spontaneity of the drawing, the transparencies, and the contrast between intense colors and areas of bare paper lend the composition a dynamic character, far removed from classical representations of the subject. Active since the early 1970s, Lluís Cots has developed a career centered on the exploration of material, gesture, and color. He exhibited early on at the Crecelius Gallery in Tarragona, the Da Barra and Subex galleries in Barcelona, and later at the Maeght Gallery in Barcelona (1984), the Sala Cajamadrid (1988), and the Lina Davidov Gallery in Paris (1999). His work has also been featured in exhibitions in Berlin and other European venues.