After his latest exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and Tokyo, Rufina Santana comes to Tenerife with a project intended for exhibition in the Circulo de Bellas Artes in the capital .
This "Mapping the Garden", ideal place where life is represented by organic forms, details of dead branches, leaves, fallen trees, and pools in connection with his previous project "Archaeology of the Garden" (2001).
Her work is in line most current painting and renovation of the landscape genre: Monet, Turner and German painting of Kandinsky and Nolde. Rufina Santana
A is interested in the mystical nature. The paintings, inspired by visits to various gardens Rufina Santana, is what the title of this exhibition "Cartographies of the Garden", "Cartography" in the plural. The paintings
describes a sensual nature, as appears each day at dawn and dusk, the landscape he lives. From the gardens naked "The Geria and Salinas in Lanzarote, the refinement of European botanic gardens or the silence of nature in the Zen temples of Japan.
is the first Rufina Santana fragments after the stroke with the intention to form an aerial map of the territory of his painting, where the plant, soil and water are represented in timeless and dynamic coexistence through images, which are macro and microcosmic while .
Brushstrokes sometimes become academic, since ocher surface can be filled with different shades of yellow-green, purple ... so the brush marks their lives with spontaneous spots wisely exploited by the author.
Rufina Santana says of his work:
"Lights and shadows of nature are more striking than one might imagine when I paint from memory of my trips. " "I always start with random spots, thinking or remembering moments of enjoyment, in nature." "My eyes behold the landscape and on the canvas represent the changes, the sequences of light, shadows caressing the mountains, where flowers are born, the logs bent, leaning over the water." "I want to explore nature and how it can serve as a reflection."
On one side is the structure of the landscape, hence the name "map", and secondly the mystique of the action of light and, therefore, the color on the landscape. This is a work-based paint color coats. Each group arising from random spots and nature takes over branches, leaves and puddles scenarios arise by chance a great beauty in chaos.
Chaos and Order. Stations such as births and changes that speak of vital networks. Fragility of existence, in constant vibration. Strength and endurance of a changing nature. Layer upon layer, the paint is fixing the memory of the observed.
"Beauty is in the most unexpected places and gives us not only to be discovered, but to be deeply contemplative." Says the author.
stroll through the garden of Rufina Santana is quiet and the act of painting: pure feeling.
Written-communication study. RS
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