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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
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