Publication: Mediating between Emotion and Judgement. Soledad Sevilla
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Tejeda Martín, Isabel
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Facultad de Bellas Artes
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
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In “Mediating between Emotion and Judgment,” Isabel Tejeda examines Soledad Sevilla’s artistic practice as a continual negotiation between formal intellect and affective experience. Tejeda argues that Sevilla’s work transcends a purely geometric or analytical language by engaging with beauty, intuition, and sensation to produce emotional resonance in viewers. While Sevilla’s early career was grounded in geometric abstraction and rigorous forms developed in contexts like the University of Madrid’s Computing Centre, Tejeda highlights how these structures always carried an expressive dimension rather than remaining cold or detached. Tejeda frames Sevilla’s retrospective Rhythms, Grids, Variables as a circular narrative that connects early geometric modules and lines with later works that evoke atmosphere, memory, and sensory depth. Through rhythm, variation, and spatial engagement, Sevilla’s art situates viewers at thresholds where aesthetic perception invites emotional response. Tejeda underscores Sevilla’s capacity to create a dialogue between judgment and feeling, showing how rational formal systems and poetic intuition coexist in her oeuvre. In this view, Sevilla’s art mediates intellectual structure and visceral experience, making abstract form a vehicle for emotional engagement rather than pure calculation.
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Isabel Tejeda, “Mediating between Emotion and Judgement. Soledad Sevilla”, en Soledad Sevilla. Rhytms, Grids, Variables, Madrid, MNCARS, 2024, pp. 118-137,
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