Maria Aparici’s oeuvre invites us not merely to look but to undergo an experience, a confrontation with the layers of truth that painting, when honest, can still uncover. Her canvases remind us that painting remains one of the few languages capable of resisting the anesthetizing effects of modern life. In a cultural moment obsessed with surface, Aparici’s work insists on depth; in a world that celebrates speed, she slows vision down to the viscosity of oil paint. Each brushstroke seems to demand accountability not only from the viewer but from the history that shaped our eyes.

To encounter Maria Aparici’s latest collection is to step into a battlefield where the canvas itself becomes the site of rebellion. This award-winning artist, whose roots trace back to Valencia—the land that birthed the great Joaquín Sorolla—uses her oil-on-canvas works to shatter conventions, challenging both aesthetic traditions and the cultural mores that define femininity in the modern world. Aparici's lineage and formal education, enriched by a sojourn in the United States, lend her work a striking duality: it is both a nod to classical mastery and a bold march into uncharted territories of abstraction, expressionism, and feminist ideology.

In Maria Aparici Vives’s work, one notes a distant but suggestive pictorial connection with her grand-uncle, Manuel Benedito Vives (1875-1963), a painter of the Valentian school, especially in her female portraits in which each artist articulates a certain concept of style in accordance with the nomenclatures and vicissitudes of his/her time. One might argue that what is in him an orthodox and sober characterization of bodies and atmospheres, Aparici’s work sets an expressionist and algid formulation of this same gender in boiling gestures, streaks, expressions and colors. They indicate an evolutionary tendency which leaves the eye with a creative vitalism in the times of different generations. Gregorio Vigil-Escalera (Spanish art critic).