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The artist’s painting leads us to make that immaterial The observer thus finds himself having to paraphrase
journey that allows our mind to visit the ”non-places” paintings with a high technical and communicative value.
painted by the artist. An artist who, through an incisive These splendid realities originate between suspended
sign and a sublime knowledge of color, makes the canvas silences and silent desires of the soul. Realities that in
a battlefield in which to win every war. Color is the true order to be decoded correctly need what is called the
protagonist of his painting; a color that is declined in keystone. Not to loom in aberrant decoding.
a thousand shades; a color that presents itself with its
brightest shades and conquers the gaze of an observer The works of Patricia Gagic are characterized by their
who is seduced by such beauty and sign power. Her are value: cultural and ideological. Ideology is the basis of
authentic confessions on canvas. Confessions shouted a brilliant thought that the artist decides to share with
that testify to all the communicative power of her. all of us. A free sign. A sign that has no need to draw
rational bisectors. A sign that, once freed from the
Confessions that after having crossed the threshold prisons of reason, comes to inhabit our world. Patricia,
of the most hidden thought, return to our world and through the genius of her sign, traces the new guidelines
profess what are new absolute truths. Truths that will of contemporary painting. A painting that is no longer
remain forever on the great art encyclopedia. The forced to follow rigid “academic” schemes, but which,
rhythm, in her works, is given by the form while the thanks to the artist’s hand, finds a new Cartesian axis
rhymes are narrated visually through the depth of the on which to express her power.
contents. Dr. Salvatore Russo, art critic and curato
LOTUS, 2021 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 60X40 IN. | 152.4X101.6 CM.
RAINING CONGAS, 2021 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 30X24 IN. | 76.2X60.9 CM.
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