Venezuelan artist resident in Paris, France, has been analyzed by a constellation of relevant contemporary critics, both European and American. Admired and celebrated during many decades in the art world scene, Borjas is a painter that merges intellectual thinking with sensory experience. While observing his work, viewers will question essential issues about the significance of human kind in the context of the material and the spiritual being. He illustrates the duality between anguish and serenity with abstract insinuations that suggest the cohabitation of fire with water, of the cloud within the air
The multicolored canvases of the Mexican artist Leonardo Nierman (n. 1932) talk intensely to its viewers through an intellectual conversation, whose stage is populated by exquisitely dynamic, attractive and vibrant shapes that provoke contrasts between endless spaces projected to the infinite. Abstract art does not necessarily represent things, objects or people from the observable world, and instead it expresses the artist’s ideas and sensations. The subject matter may or may not be recognizable, as non-representational art communicates its meaning through dramatically simplified or invented forms. In the art here presented, the artwork depicts not only an image but an event. What matters is the revelation implicit in the act when every distinction between art and life has stopped. Unknown, disconcerting, untouchable aspects of our time happen to be subjects for contemporary art. The artist is the hand that produces the vibrations when contacting the human soul and artists create art to express their own time. However, sensibility will always remain as the last instance and the first source for human inspiration
Artist Annette Turrillo was born in Caracas, Venezuela, where she graduated as an architect, and from 1995 she moved to Europe, accomplishing her career as a visual artist. A deep knowledge of art history is an element clearly discernible in the work by Turrillo. The feminine figure that subtlety unfolds in her paintings is almost “Leonardesque” and at the same time takes the hieratic shape of an archaic Greek sculpture. She portrays at once the deaf scream of present day women immersed in the abyss constituted by the necessity of performing many characters at the same time to fulfill an assembly of essences that are not stated because each woman can perceive her own. Annette’s work becomes the carrier of thoughts and emotions: the woman of this world that is also the mother earth, the woman of passion, the mystery of femininity, the motherhood, the subtle beauty and the spiritual search. To abstract is to borrow, to separate and to remove. Composition, equilibrium, balance, surprise, and action are some of the words that come to my mind when I observe Annette’s paintings. Her canvases introduce the spectator beyond the bi-dimensional towards a sensory experience of space and dimension, establishing a dialogue between the human and the materialistic. In her work Annette transmits the perception of elegance.
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