Peripheral ARTeries
Carolina Saidenberg (Brazil) an artist’s statement
Since early childhood I draw and paint; my parents suggested I started studying oil painting at age 11. In 1998 I got a Bachelor’s degree in Arts from Anhembi Morumbi University. Later I get a post-degree at Arts. 2003. In 2011 I’ve lived a period in Milan – Italy, studying art, fashion and jewelry design. I am influenced by the French Impressionists , Post impressionists, Japanese culture and style and figurative painters like Modigliani, Monet, Klimt, Gaughin, Van Gogh, Lautrec, Degas… creating my own modernist style. My current and more frequent theme is named "Look Upon" - Looking over the city, that consist in symbolic Painting series inspired in the urban life. Representing nostalgic urban scenes and the creatures that live in it, all represented as a dream world of impressions. I like to represent the contrasts between nature and urban, modern and old, decadent and new under the beholder eye. This beholder can be a bird, the soul’s eye, it changes in synchrony with the ambient is surrounded, is the beholder that needs to survive and adapt to a constant transformation. Lately circus references have been part of my works, bringing the idea of magic and nostalgia, of something lost. Also of the amazing thing that is to be alive, a delicate balance learned to survive. I'm also fascinated by oriental culture and art and legends. In fact, I like legends so much that i have several works not only about Japanese legends, but also Brazilian and Greek mythology, Celtic etc I like making these paintings and drawing so much because they combine with my dreamy representation of reality, present in most of my works.
Carolina Saidenberg
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