El estilo de Els Cools es el surrealismo grotesco. La artista intenta plasmar por medio de formas figurativas simbólicas las imágenes de la realidad más profunda del ser humano, el subconsciente y el mundo de los sueños. El pensamiento oculto y prohibido es su fuente de inspiración, en el erotismo descubre realidades oníricas, y el sexo está tratado de forma impúdica.
Representa sueños desligados a toda referencia a la realidad. Los horizontes, la sensación de infinito, la presencia de objetos misteriosos y sin correspondencia con la realidad objetiva y las alusiones a signos sexuales caracterizan su obra consiguiendo provocar angustia y misterio.
Provoca el choque emotivo de color aplicado a formas realistas puestas en lugares y momentos inverosímiles. Realiza absurdas combinaciones de paisajes, ambientes externos e internos.
ENG: Cools’ style can be described as a kind of surreal realism for it is in the grotesque, in the absurd and in the surreal that the almost painful realism is hidden. In the collision between the hyper-sensed, intimate realistic details and the individual elements, Cools’ art opens up to the spectators and invites them into a surreal room of interpretation. Through these clashes between figurative elements, a story is told which may seem absurd or surreal but which via the surreal convinces us that it the only way that everyday life or the intricate human soul can be portrayed.
A part of the explanation for Cools’ narrative art can be found in her background as an illustrator. She feels at home working with epic stories which are then transformed through a special associative technique that often creates a story running parallel with the written word. But even when the pictures are illustrations for books they are always individual works of art, possessing their own inner logic and story line and they always bear that distinctive mark that is Cools’.
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