{"id":1140,"date":"2022-04-14T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:14:35","slug":"the-magic-of-everyday-life-interview-with-alejandra-marroquin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/la-magia-de-lo-cotidiano-entrevista-a-alejandra-marroquin","title":{"rendered":"The magic of the everyday: Interview with Alejandra Marroqu\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The magic of the everyday: Interview with Alejandra Marroqu\u00edn<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to her grandfather and her admiration for her sister, Alejandra decided to explore and exploit her creativity.<\/h2>\n\n\n
14 April 2022 by Monapart<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Alejandra Marroqu\u00edn and her work bring us closer to the beauty of the everyday, to the simplicity of a good after-dinner conversation with our most beloved people and to the Mediterranean. Since we see that art is the place where it moves like 'Peix' in the water ;D (read on and you will understand the wink). We invite you to know more about Alejandra and everything that moves her creative world.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tell us about yourself and your work. Where did your vocation start? Any first memories?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

My name is Alejandra, I'm 21 years old and I'm from Alicante, although I currently live in Madrid. I think my first memory of painting was when my grandfather gave my sister and me a box of paints that they sold in the newspaper as a promotional gift. Adri, my older sister, has always been a great painter and I have always wanted to be as good as her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What do you find most satisfying about your work, and is there anything you are particularly proud of?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

What I find most satisfying about my work is seeing it evolve. Having a painting in my hands that I did many years ago and that I remember hating at the time, and yet now I adore, and no matter how hard I try to recreate it again or something similar, it would be a totally different piece. Through my paintings I leave a kind of \"trace\" that is conditioned by who inspires me at that particular moment, what I hear, where I live, who is in my environment... etc. It is magnificent to see how everything outside influences me unconsciously (or not so unconsciously hahaha). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without a doubt, my favourite work will always be the one with the hand holding the glass, from the series of AleVale<\/em>. It is the one I currently have as my profile picture and it is the first painting I did when I arrived at my first painting studio. I am very fond of it and I could risk saying that it is the one that has attracted the most public attention, although I have never considered selling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is your creative process like, what are your sources of inspiration, any particular music while working?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I would define my creative process as an accumulation of emotions, which suddenly explode and transform into a frame with canvas and paint on the support. \"What are your sources of inspiration? <\/em>What a nice question. I love to talk about my references, I think they define very well who I am today and my journey as an artist. Here I go: Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Rothko, Palma Alvari\u00f1o, In\u00e8s Longevial, Chloe Wise, Shannon Cartier Lucy, Sam Adoquei, Unai Cardoner and Domenico Gnoli... among many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the music I listen to, when I'm painting I usually play my playlist in the studio. La El\u00e9ctrica Estudio<\/em>. It was the name of my first painting studio and I add songs weekly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favourite colour, book, film and record - in that order! ;D<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Viridian green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woman in red on a grey background<\/em> of Borges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Abnormal<\/em> of the Strokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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