Lourdes Naveillan began a dialogue with the elements that has only been refined over the years. Elements of nature, or those that form part of her studio, her working tools. The recent series she presents emerged from an investigation into color, stain, painterly boldness, and water, in the solitude of successive confinements. These gave rise to opposing and complementary forces on her canvases and papers, such as the impulses of Eros and Thanatos, of light and darkness, of violence and sublimation, of movement and restraint. Thus, she invokes pure, material abstraction, the delicacy of washes and transparencies, the primitive gesture of humankind, and that emanating from the heavens, whose final interpretation leads to a unique language, one that is simultaneously ancestral and contemporary.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoetry is a celestial atrocity,\u201d wrote the most cosmic of poets, Vicente Huidobro, at the end of his life, when he confessed in his verses that he was becoming a tree, and many other things that transform into others. Just like the work of Lourdes Naveillan, which is becoming everything the eye projects onto these images that evoke the pain and hope contained in our country. To streets occupied and then deserted, to earth, fire, air, and rain\u2014vital elements that are Creation and Creator, artist and instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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