Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / JANUARY 2020
Ana Engelman
Argentina
www.anaengelman.com
About
My name is Ana Engelman. I was born in Buenos Aires in
1976. I am a Visual Artist and graduated in Sociology. The
painting appears as a necessity. I am interested in the
practice of painting itself. Observe the reaction between
the materials and the support. Painting is an investigation, a
report that I do. Find out what the Memory Record is. I look
in the answers for some evocative detail that allows me to
reconstruct part of my ancestral history that I don’t know.
Certain questions cover my purpose: in relation to Space, my
intention to catch the essential. I look for the permanent that
lacks variables. What is the territory I am exploring like? Is it
a territory anchored in another time? In relation to Time, Is it a
stopped time? What is the past? I am creating drawings and
paintings on different paper and unprepared fabrics, using
fatty media and water such as graphite and ink. Series work.
The palette is black and white, achieving a range of values
with different vanishes. Work in layers considering the white
of the paper. Achieving a temperature according to the base
color of the hot or cold paper. I intend to create a stripped
space that enables the observer the possibility of abstracting
from his time, experiencing loneliness, distancing himself
from the tangible and real.
How does nature freeze?
The experience in Arteles produced an expansion and a
strengthening of my bond with painting. In the creative
process it was the ideal place to be able to concentrate
and work on my work in a calm way, to be able to explore
freely and deepen the development of work. My intention
of approaching these beautiful landscapes was to explore
the territory that appears in my work, in my research it was
very relevant to get in direct contact with the snow and
the cold. And so it was that the experience paid off with
several rethinking about some questions and new forms of
answers. The walks, the meditation, the intense dreams,
the silence were sources of inspiration for the daily work. It
was an expansion work where I used some new techniques
and deepened others already worked, I could experience
releasing some patterns (for example in the brushstroke) and
from there creating new ones, beginning to form a proper
language of expression. They were intense days, shared
with beautiful souls and experiences that fed my being as a
painter and as a person.