Xita Fornt (Barcelona, 1934) studied a major in art at Escola Eina from 1981 to 1983, with artists like Albert Ràfols-Casamada, Francesc Artigau, Xavier Serra de Rivera, Sergi Aguilar, Patricio Vélez and Ernest Fontecilla. She continued to study with this latter artist in 1987 and 1988, and participated with him in a group exhibition at the School of Architecture in Girona. She then studied for three years with Francesc Artigau and Xavier Serra de Rivera, another three with Aurora Altiseny and Clara Guillot and, finally, two more alongside the artist Pau Alemany.
Although she began painting figuratively, she quickly evolved towards abstraction, with her visual language distinguished by gesture, stains and luminosity. This style enabled her to feel comfortable and free when expressing herself, as she developed a world of abstract shapes that allowed her to encompass everything that does not have a shape of its own, come alive alongside intangible features within a lyrical or dreamlike space.
Nevertheless, her interest in the study of the human figure in more recent years has brought her to move in the opposite direction, returning to figuration, without fully abandoning abstraction, combining the lines of figurative drawing with expressionist volumes of colour. In the exhibition presented here, the human figure is front and centre, represented in extremely simplified lines, as Fornt traces nude bodies moving in the rhythm of brushed colour, recalling that the frontier between figuration and abstraction can quite often be dissolved by the drawing of a single line.