Louveciennes 1974

Maria Elena Morató was born in Barcelona in 1958. She studied drawing and painting with her father, the well-known painter Morató Aragonés, and took a degree in Communication Studies at the Independent University of Barcelona in 1981. She started her dual professional trajectory in Reus writing for the weekly newspaper “Semanario Reus” in 1976 and having her first individual exhibition at the Galería La Tronada in 1978. Since then, she combines her painting activities with her work as a journalist, art critic and independent editor. Since her beginnings, the main motif of her paintings are landscapes, fundamentally urban landscapes, alternating themes and atmospheres present in the works of her father (from whom she inherited her preference for grey shades) with the light and colours of North African cities, whose structures became one of her characteristic features. The unlike architecture of Mediterranean and European villages and those of the Sahara and Middle East is reflected in a work in which the trace of the human being is sensed through the line and the colour.

Paris 2003

Erfoud 1989

Moniquendam 1991