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Rosa López Calull | ||||||||
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As you can suspect the relationship among these disciplines is almost elusive, but not for that less certain, the circles are themselves mathematical, understanding is crucial in education, the letter a is art, it also is psychoanalysis...My work is defined by that endless possibilities, by the ins and outs of this Gordian knot. Almost
all my paintings are focused on what we might call "other realities"
and so many people define my artwork as "realistic ".
Which seems rather a paradox, because trying to capture the reality
is something essential for growth, if we don't do it we die, although
falling into credulity that what we see and feel is the "reality"
is a physically and psychologically folly proven. I think with the stroke of the palette knife and brush tip. For me, painting is the way I can understand the world, each stroke inserted to myself into a new reality, in a surprise, it puts me on to an alien world which hurts my narcissism. "These
other realities" are only one possible interpretation of my
reality. Painting "interprets" to me in the psychoanalytic
sense of the word. My experience about the act of painting is similar
to a session, one lies on the couch and talks free associating (an
impossibility in itself), disappears in these words without meaning
to be reunited with a crossed out, inserted in a speech in the Other.
I come to a place, I sit on the floor and paint, there is no preset
idea, only the glance captured by my eyes, I disappear in shades
of colors, lights, textures and strokes, later the canvas or the
pictorial series returns to me some kind of "knowledge "
about what I glimpsed, who interpret to me. I give light, shape and color using the palette knife, give them to the minutiae of daily life, the atmosphere that surrounds them, the anonymous people ... those residues that make up the unconscious, that go unnoticed but making up the life and the culture. In recent years, I've needed to adopt a new position faced with Art, which is suffering a really distance of "the heritage we all share". So I demand Art as a "shared rite", further away the mere show, the "slicked down performance ". I'm interested in the "act", in the "scene" where the artisan and the interlocutor create a new space away from their narcissisms. That's the reason why I'm painting and showing in the streets, in the gardens, in the mountains, in the public spaces lately, where the passed-by can stand at my side, looking at, taking part and performing the painting".
1 de Noviembre de 2010
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CALULL, Rosa López Calull was born in Barcelona and currently resides in Alella She's
got a Bachelor's degree in Education, major in Elementary Education
from Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona (UAB) and a Postgraduate
in Teaching of the Visual Arts from Universitat Autònoma
in Barcelona (UAB) She has also got studies in Natural drawing, Mural painting and Illustration at Escola d'Arts i Oficis in Barcelona and Badalona. She works in Fabra School and manages the Art-Education-Psychoanalysis space Tangram. Calull's
paintings has been shown in several galleries and art centers, national
and international. His work is part of different private and public
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