The Tao of Aesthetics
When painting, Marta Estrems uses to pin her canvases up directly
on the wall so she can get a solid support to safely brush, sponge or hand rub
the paint with the proper energy and intensity to obtain these simple abstract
yet expressive signs that equally embody violence and balance. She is
definitively an action painter though her work is closer to the European Tachisme
than to American Abstract Expressionism –it especially evoke the gestures of Mathieu,
Hartung and Wols. Nevertheless, beyond its clear affiliation with Lyrical
Abstraction, Estrems paintings closely relate to Taoist painting, an art that
grasp the essence of Taoism through the representation of nature, simplicity, and
the balance of Yin and Yang in order to project the feeling of harmony derived
from both strength and simplicity of life and nature. Yin is the air (background,
emptiness), Yan are the figures / images (fullness) and it all referrers a
false duality as the ancient Chinese believed that matter and energy are one
and the same.
Marta Estrems painting bears a power and energy similar to
that one generated by swirling dervishes and Tai Chi masters, that is the
energy created/displaced by the human body moving through the space with
certain intention and at a given pace. It is hard to imagine how a title,
mature woman can handle such enormous canvases and inscribe the high amount of
energy and violence we can read on their surfaces. The signs and traces her
hand and arm leaves on the canvas is a metaphor of the world in pain and unrest
she is witnessing around, near and far. Yet, when a woman gets that pissed off
is way better that she grabs a brush than a gun, cause the result can lead to
evolution, instead of revolution or even crime. Thus, she seems to continue Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics as
her own Tao of Aesthetics.
Rafael Lopez-Ramos
Friday Dec 21, 6:39 pm
Arch Gallery, 1618 SW 13 Street, Miami FL 33145
2 comentarios:
el hacer es febril e intenso y dificil de definir ,gracias a la profunda vision de la obra que ha hecho Lopez Ramos he podido desprenderme de ella ,chapeau señor Rafael .
Marta su obra ha provocado esa visión, la mano que escribe responde al ojo que ve.
Mis saludos y afecto.
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