A Major Figure in Contemporary Figuration

In just a few years, Cristina BanBan has established herself as one of the most singular and recognized artists on the international painting scene.
Born in Barcelona and now based in New York, she has developed a deeply embodied visual language, where the female body becomes a space for narrative, power, and vulnerability.
Her painting, immediately recognizable, carries an intensity that oscillates between sensuality, intimate memory, and monumentality.

A Visceral Style: Painting as Presence

At the heart of BanBan’s work are bodies — massive, expressive, almost sculptural.
These are bodies that overflow, occupy space, and assert their existence.

Hypertrophied volumes, widened silhouettes, amplified gestures: the body is not represented, it is asserted.

Flesh tones, ochres, dark greens, deep reds: an organic palette that evokes earth, skin, and emotion.

Expansive gestural work: her brushstrokes combine the spontaneity of action painting with the precision of classical drawing.

Her figures, often female, seek neither idealization nor conformity. They are alive, sometimes awkward, but always real.
In doing so, BanBan reconnects with a Mediterranean pictorial tradition — from El Greco to Picasso — while situating her work firmly within contemporary concerns: identity, the body, femininity, introspection.

Multiple Bodies, Intertwined Narratives

In her compositions, women appear alone, in pairs, or in groups, often superimposed or fragmented.
This staging creates a multiplication of perspectives:

• Bodies responding to, carrying, or embracing each other;

• Poses frozen in suspended time;

• Intimate gestures — combing hair, embracing, waiting — transformed into monumental scenes.

BanBan depicts ordinary moments but imbues them with dramatic intensity, as if observing an intimate scene through an emotional magnifying glass.
One of her great strengths is transforming the everyday into a personal myth.

Between Figuration and Abstraction: A Fertile Tension

The artist does not aim to be strictly figurative.
On the contrary, her characters often flirt with:

• Expressive distortion,

• Gestural abstraction,

• Cubist fragmentation,

• Baroque monumentality.

She moves beyond mere representation of reality to achieve a form of emotional truth.
The deliberately distorted proportions are not gratuitous stylistic choices: they convey the intensity of the moment, the weight of a memory, the urgency of a gesture.

Thus, her paintings speak as much of the memory of the body as of the body itself.

Intimate Narratives and Mediterranean Iconography

Though not literal, Cristina BanBan’s work frequently evokes:

• Personal mythology,

• Spanish traditions,

• Family drama,

• Tensions between heritage and emancipation.

Some compositions recall the theatricality of Spanish tragedy: compacted figures, charged gazes, heavy atmospheres.
Others evoke the sunlit joy of the Mediterranean — swimming, resting, social and family bonds.

It is this ambivalence, between gravity and lightness, that gives her universe its singular depth.

A Language of Female Power

Cristina BanBan is not a “feminist” artist in a programmatic sense, yet her work asserts a rare representation of the feminine in contemporary painting.

These are women who:

• Take up space,

• Carry their own stories,

• Escape normative scrutiny,

• Assert their psychic and physical presence.

They do not seduce; they exist.
And this existence is a pictorial act in its own right.

An International Impact

BanBan’s rapid rise is explained not only by the immediate force of her painting but also by her ability to speak to a broad audience beyond specialized circles.
Her work appeals to:

• Lovers of figuration,

• Enthusiasts of expressive modernity,

• Collectors drawn to artists who challenge physical and aesthetic norms.

An Exhibition in Paris: BanBan in Full Recognition

The artist is currently featured in a major exhibition in Paris, confirming her central position in contemporary creation.

Exhibition: Galerie Perrotin, Paris
Dates: October 18 – December 20, 2025

This exhibition explores the connections between her pictorial universe and the emotional and theatrical legacy of Federico García Lorca — a unique opportunity to discover her work from a symbolic and narrative perspective.

Cristina BanBan at LYNART: A Rare Selection

At LYNART, we present a carefully curated selection of emblematic works by Cristina BanBan, highlighting her aesthetic power and stylistic evolution.
These pieces perfectly embody the richness of her universe and her mastery of the language of the body.

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