The artist’s challenge is about finding beauty within day-to-day simplest things and managing to transmit the aesthetic emotions they can produce. A drop of water, for instance.

Once, I wrote a mini-poem that goes: "A drop of water has room enough for half a universe". Within Claudia Bardasano’s drops of waters there is a whole universe of beauty where unsuspected textures, absurd color juxtapositions and evocative proposals can be discovered.

For the world is full of unknown wonders. A rainbow full of splendor and fine shades summing up the colors of light spectrum can emerge from a filthy puddle spilled with oil. A rotten tree can host a world of aesthetic emotions as far as the artist knows how to look at it and is able to reproduce these impressions on the canvas. Whereas artist are the only ones gifted and capable of finding the hiding relations behind things. The aesthetic emotions conceal by day-to-day veil, by the elemental and simple, all those things seemingly worthless before people’s eyes.

That is the miracle of art. That is the artist spell. I only hope Claudia Bardasano continues finding and disclosing the mysteries comprised within a simple drop of water lying on a dirty piece of glass, or falling and bouncing on a water mirror thus creating an endless number of concentric circles. Because, in my opinion, she, by choosing this simplistic theme, has managed finding a whole world to be discovered yet. A world that is waiting for the magic her brushes hold.

Jaime Tello






 



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