Maria Guerrieri
Maria Guerrieri lives and works in Buenos Aires. She is a young artist represented by the Braga Menendez gallery, and has often exhibited with Hernán Salamanco. Their work is similar in its use of materials but evokes a very different perspective, and method.
She sees her work as analogous to a living being, composed of different parts which form a living whole.
Influenced mainly by literature, especially by fables, Maria Guerrieri situates recognisable silhouettes which appear to be of toys or characters in fairy tales in thick fields of colour. Her work is "whimsical. I paint things that have happened to me which have made me happy, other times I draw the places where the characters of my fables live".
Shadows of plaything echoed in anonymous thick enamel paint across metal sheets, the fairytale focus also reflects a slightly gory anatomy, felt in the thickness of the paint and the slightly muted colours. The works are voids, eerie silences which are waiting expectantly to be filled by the spectator's gaze. They hold their own secret rhetoric, but are closed simultaneously, blocks of paint that tell muted tales in sandy shades of colour.
Copyright Maria Tidball-Binz, Lodeveans Collection
Shown by
Galería Braga Menéndez Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires
She sees her work as analogous to a living being, composed of different parts which form a living whole.
Influenced mainly by literature, especially by fables, Maria Guerrieri situates recognisable silhouettes which appear to be of toys or characters in fairy tales in thick fields of colour. Her work is "whimsical. I paint things that have happened to me which have made me happy, other times I draw the places where the characters of my fables live".
Shadows of plaything echoed in anonymous thick enamel paint across metal sheets, the fairytale focus also reflects a slightly gory anatomy, felt in the thickness of the paint and the slightly muted colours. The works are voids, eerie silences which are waiting expectantly to be filled by the spectator's gaze. They hold their own secret rhetoric, but are closed simultaneously, blocks of paint that tell muted tales in sandy shades of colour.
Copyright Maria Tidball-Binz, Lodeveans Collection
Shown by
Galería Braga Menéndez Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires
