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Marcela Ramirez-Aza (Colombia) An artist's statement
Far beyond the need of expression, there is a liberating impulse of inner forces which drive me to creation, to the pictorial concretions of instants, that when materialized, seem to be eternal. I feel that painting brings me closer to the creator essence of the gods because I sketch worlds whimsically, I make them emerge from the background of my canvas; I give expression to them with an essentially visceral, cathartic impulse. I invent spaces, and evade myself in gestures, textures and colors; I undo myself within the silence, I approach the universal language of the senses, the time. Possibly the pathology of violence generates analogous artistic expressions in different times and places, which are a strong and intrinsic motivation to me, making my artistic activity in confinement, a palliative which allows me a survival loaded with emotional breakouts. This context of informalism, of the search of its own significance and the inexistence of rules, of existentialism as the solitude of the individual and the mysticism of the authentic exploration of its authentic essence, has allowed me the reserve, the time I have considered necessary for exhibiting my work, the freedom in the longing for random representations, for unusual materials, for investigating, and for flowing when losing myself... for concluding.... and evoking. Lastly, painting as a purifying proccess becomes, and makes me become a liberating event, a celebration, an offer to the Universe, a story without words, a poetic act. Marcela Ramirez-Aza
Transgresion (photo by Juan Domingo Guzmรกn)