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reaction of skin contact is; one realizes, little by little,   energy that resonates as an imperceptible murmur. From
           that one is losing ground. Entering unknowingly and        a feeble, calm, but dynamic incandescence, brakes out
           inexorably into a state of ecstasy and bewilderment of     the disarming beauty that scratches and attracts the

           sensorial enervation. A high voltage path, searing energy   fascination of fleshy petals, stamens, flowers, the essence
           that outlines the absolute boundaries on which the force   of nature. Both sensual and sensitive explorations, capable
           and equilibrium of form determines the aesthetic feeling   of establishing a relationship between the emotional

           of Blauensteiner.                                          immensity, the work, and the viewer.
           In her works, the fluid, intense and expressive colors     Horizons, clouds, tonalities, spiritual expressions and
           seem to create a new dimension in which simple signs       the chirp of silent life are dressed beyond the language
           and figures give rise to a complex counterpoint together   of painting and into the archipelago of the soul. As if
           with the background. Everything dissolves slowly, the      Blauensteiner would want from this disruptive deluge to

           effect is one of suspended intangible tension, a void      trace vitality itself, and then translate it into luminous
           filled by chromatic echoes coming from never abandoned     plasticity and spread it onto the canvas.
           visions. Soft variations dancing like light rarefaction in   From form to meaning, from sense to musicality of the

           the  field  of  view,  a  vibrant  sensibility  dissolved  into  an   artwork titles. Words that do not repeat the visible things
           emotional reflection. Light and transparent fluids capable   but make them visible through the reflection of their
           of spreading in all directions.  It is as if a special and unreal   meaning and their verbal reference. Their visual beauty is
           glow would dissolve the forms and reveal the imaginary,    told by embracing the expression of language. Reflections
           placing the inner feeling before reality.                  and thoughts rushing, shaken and quiet but always on

           Sounds that suggest colors and lines, a fascinating        the move in the liquidity of color. Deep blue quiet white,
           dialogue between the being and nature. Sounds that         chromatic fantasies of refined rhythms, rampant in the
           trace the tensioned abstractions between the finite and    rarefied atmosphere. It is a thin and intense vibration,

           the infinite. An extreme simplification of the visible into   it is a passionate dance in the physicality of a feeling
           undefined air, enchantments and leitmotivs that take the   by inflaming peaks into strips of light, into fulminating
           value of sensation in their eternal truth.  Fervent and    arabesques of the brush.
           genuine emotions perceived and lived by the artist are now   Symbolic, elegant, slender and sinuous female figures
           liberated into the canvas as pure spiritual transposition.  listen to the moon reflected on their immaterial presence.

           Languid ocean of tenderness and nostalgia, that progresses   Opening the heart of pictorial introspection, melodically
           in green tones, a sea of gentle movements, of reclining    harmonious cadences of sheet music that moves forward
           waves with amazing technical skills. Blauensteiner’s       towards the horizon. It spreads an iridescent feeling which

           brushstrokes are like breaths soaked in the dawn of        joins the brightness of the palette, a tonal play of great
           inspiration  with  the  delicate  transparency  of  a  breath.   tact and complex drafts through endless passages meet
           Musical nuances of sinuous dreamy lines become sensitive   in a shimmering vibrato suspended in the observer’s gaze.
           interpreters of the inexpressible, a feather of poetry lies   In each painting muffled shades introduce a spiritual and
           on the water.                                              emotional contrast that  is  then solved with luminous

           A glance to the past, to memories, to dreams, and a choir of   modulations wisely mitigated into delicate sensorial
           colors suddenly reveal another place. The insubstantiality   evocations in the mirror of pictorial and emotional
           of things, the mystery of the universe. The creativity of   transparency. Thought, dream, melancholy, desire,
           Blauensteiner gets charged by a subtle lyric emotion.      dizziness, trembling sentimental transposition, blinding

           In the consumption of yellow and red, in the delirium      light that devastates reason. Everything is brilliance, it is
           of warm tones, thoughts, the internal reflection and       vital instinct, it is the vortex of emotions, it is art that floats
           the intimate sense of poetry of the artist slips like a    in the poignant lyricism of Dalia Blauensteiner.
           flooding river. An immense and almost unconscious                                                  Antonella Iozzo

                                                                                        Translation by Sandra Miranda  (www.bluarte.it)



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