Moro Merino’s drawing is precise and exquisite while at once loose and elegant. His use of colour, which has now grown softer, more subtle and contained, charged with transparencies, is far removed from the intense colouring and blotches that populated his early works, imbuing them with the strength and drama one can appreciate in this canvas belonging to the BBVA collection. Here, his bold use of colour gives rise to figures that seem to wish to take on a corporeal presence. These figures are nourished from memory and recollection, from his dreamlike world, but are also premonitions of a possible future.
The figurative references in his painting are seamlessly fused with abstraction in a highly personal rendering of the expression of his feelings. He uses colour both as support and frame for volumes silhouetted with thick lines. The balanced composition pursues an emotional connection with the spectator.
Mythology and a personal bestiary of fantasy animals (chrysalides, winged creatures, etc.) have always been present in his painting, using them to show us a universe plagued with metaphors. At the same time he experiments with materials to give body to his creations and to try to establish the limits of his language.