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To assume painting as a form of expression in a time like the one we live in now is a
difficult and daring decision. Technology quick development has generated radical too many
changes in the production of artistic images. For instance, how could anyone confront a
paintbrush with a video camera or a digital image? The seeming lost of the identity that
links the artist with his/her work, along with the pictorial trends displayed by Claudia
Bardasano are the reasons for this question. Claudias work makes us think about the
original reflection about the enjoyment and the passion for the conventional elements of
the painter's occupation.
Today, when becoming a painter would be considered
necessary by hardly anyone, Claudia Bardasano answers back with a unique impulse and
insistence. She returns expression and movement to the canvas, and builds her own way
within the visual arts contemporary panorama.
Claudias work is the result of a profound and
vital relationship with Nature and Cosmos. That explains the open and infinite spaces, as
well as the chromatic and light potentiality exposed in them. Her paintings are
characterized by an intuitive handling of media, which, in spite of formal studies, never
lost its spontaneity or original impetus. Here happiness turns into explosions of
brightness, transparency, dynamism, vibration, visual resonance, freedom... Every
composition records a gesture. The paintbrush gestures, which help Claudia Bardasano
complete the world around her. Her painting is not premeditated. It does not come from the
easel. It comes from inside her and the close relationship she maintains with the
Universe. There is freedom in the way she handles space, uses color and applies paints.
These last ones sometimes drip, flow or get mixed in the form of thick layers. Another
important feature of Claudias work is the incorporation of objects strange to the
canvas. As an artist, she uses everything within her reach. Although Claudias
previous work intended to draw us near to the baroque taste and strong coloring that coat
nature in the Tropics, these pieces exhibit today fill spectators with a sensation that
suggests infinitude. These paintings seem endless. They extend towards unknown sidereal
worlds or new stars, despite being contained within the canvas frame, permanently opening
sources of creative energy.
Sofía Imber
Director / Founder
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas "Sofía
Imber" (Venezuela)
Museo de Coro (Venezuela)
Poste Art Hall (Venezuela)
Cadafe Art Hall (Venezuela)
Caracas
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