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MARÌA SANTACECILIA

Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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I always believed that the process and its results are, on equal terms, very With María SantaCecilia we enter a lucid climate, objects and paintings,
important in every artistic activity. But when I found the Italo Calvino´s book “The have in common the adventure of the several materials: wood, marble,
Invisibles Cities”, I discovered an interest in finding new spaces, recognizing bronze, plastic and glass, are very important in the joint objects,
others, redesigning them and finding in the apparent disorder another kind of remind of the experience of Joan Brossa´s visual poetry. On the other
limits. As Ricardo Basbaum (Brazilian contemporary artist) said “… redesign hand, her paintings are an adventure with the matter, beyond the
that space…” and then mettle use of those changes. It is interesting to show material jointed to the surface; the informal painting is, by itself,
the artistic process from the formation of the idea concept; soon the shape another adventure worth seeing.
occurs naturally and finally it becomes a metaphor. It just names the endless
in different ways. Nowadays, I work with the Argentinean artist Gómez Pola Raúl Santana, critic, hand master of the “Palais Of Glace” National
and we investigate the redesign of the artistic space circulation, using every Gallery, Buenos Aires
language and, what is more, photograph and experimental video.
María SantaCecilia
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