ARTWORK DESCRIPTION:
Our present is builded from the experiences we live. What we are now, is the result of what we were and lived yesterday. What we will be tomorrow will be the result of what we are today.
Through painting I have felt how present is the change, the constant transformation. Evoking the philosophy of Heraclitus and Nietzche, affirms: “today is not the same as yesterday and tomorrow will be different that today”. The only thing we can control is our attitude. Take nothing for granted, because nothing is certain. Let go, leave control and live in the present, find beauty and magic in every detail. LIVING FROM THE HEART, that is what this painting is about.
The glazes, color overlays, and traces, allude to that set of moments, which are also summarized in many different instants, and trying to represent the unrepresentable: the essence of life that is no other than matter in constant evolution.
BIO:
Luciana Espinar Protto
Studied Plastic Arts with a major in Painting at the Faculty of Art of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and complemented her studies at the Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts) in London. Within her specialty, she constantly investigated how to reproduce the interpretation of different sensations, emotions and moments. Furthermore, as part of her process, she tends to explore other materials, such as ceramics and stone, through sculpture. Among its exhibitions are different groups, such as Art from the Emergency, at the ICPNA; Art as a Medium of Expression, at the Amano Museum; her individual “Constant Transformation”, at the Boulevard de Asia Cultural Center; various exhibitions at the PUCP Cultural Center; among other.
Influenced by Impressionism and Expressionism, her early works have an inclination towards geometry and forms that go (de) constructing reality through abstraction. Later —and to date— a more organic trend can be seen in her work, inspired by nature and in capturing her experiences. “Experiences, emotions and permanent research are an essential part of my process as an artist. Painting allows me to go back to other spaces, to capture experiences, thoughts, what I have observed and what I have learned. In this way art arises, due to the need that human beings have to express what is not rational in oneself ”.
Her tendency towards abstraction is based on the concern of wanting to generate interpretations of realities other than what is strictly natural, to reproduce consciousness itself. In many cases, she uses metaphor to represent various sensations through a new lyrical language; proposes a new reality based on its own sensory language. Her work has lines and multiple layers of glazes that allude to memory and time in constant movement; a representation of experiences and moments that carve our present as a result. From reflection, it can be seen how, both in reality and in painting, we constantly face change. For the artist, the representation of landscapes is perceived by each person in a different way, each moment becoming unique within memory. Nothing is the same twice.