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. Claudia’s 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.

Claudia’s 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 Claudia’s work is the incorporation of objects strange to the canvas. As an artist, she uses everything within her reach. Although Claudia’s 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 1991






 



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