Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / JANUARY <strong>2020</strong><br />
Ana Engelman<br />
Argentina<br />
www.anaengelman.com<br />
About<br />
My name is Ana Engelman. I was born in Buenos Aires in<br />
1976. I am a Visual Artist and graduated in Sociology. The<br />
painting appears as a necessity. I am interested in the<br />
practice of painting itself. Observe the reaction between<br />
the materials and the support. Painting is an investigation, a<br />
report that I do. Find out what the Memory Record is. I look<br />
in the answers for some evocative detail that allows me to<br />
reconstruct part of my ancestral history that I don’t know.<br />
Certain questions cover my purpose: in relation to Space, my<br />
intention to catch the essential. I look for the permanent that<br />
lacks variables. What is the territory I am exploring like? Is it<br />
a territory anchored in another time? In relation to Time, Is it a<br />
stopped time? What is the past? I am creating drawings and<br />
paintings on different paper and unprepared fabrics, using<br />
fatty media and water such as graphite and ink. Series work.<br />
The palette is black and white, achieving a range of values<br />
with different vanishes. Work in layers considering the white<br />
of the paper. Achieving a temperature according to the base<br />
color of the hot or cold paper. I intend to create a stripped<br />
space that enables the observer the possibility of abstracting<br />
from his time, experiencing loneliness, distancing himself<br />
from the tangible and real.<br />
How does nature freeze?<br />
The experience in <strong>Arteles</strong> produced an expansion and a<br />
strengthening of my bond with painting. In the creative<br />
process it was the ideal place to be able to concentrate<br />
and work on my work in a calm way, to be able to explore<br />
freely and deepen the development of work. My intention<br />
of approaching these beautiful landscapes was to explore<br />
the territory that appears in my work, in my research it was<br />
very relevant to get in direct contact with the snow and<br />
the cold. And so it was that the experience paid off with<br />
several rethinking about some questions and new forms of<br />
answers. The walks, the meditation, the intense dreams,<br />
the silence were sources of inspiration for the daily work. It<br />
was an expansion work where I used some new techniques<br />
and deepened others already worked, I could experience<br />
releasing some patterns (for example in the brushstroke) and<br />
from there creating new ones, beginning to form a proper<br />
language of expression. They were intense days, shared<br />
with beautiful souls and experiences that fed my being as a<br />
painter and as a person.