Dis-painting – Alicia Torres

2019.05.26 – 2019.07.07

Press Release

Postmodernism gave birth to a new language, subverted our understanding of painting, expanded the original concept of “painting” and extended it into the concept of installation. Precisely what my work is about. My work is dedicated to breaking the rectangular frame of traditional painting, rectangles which once served as an intermediate, a window for a glimpse of the Flatland on the wall. Now we break away, perceive ourselves within the pictorial space, and explore the relationship between the nature of space and installation painting. We can´t understand these pieces without the space where they are exhibited.

These works study the chemical reaction caused by mixing gold foil and acrylic resin, resulting in works characterized by transparency, ductility and blue-green tone, which gives the result of abstract painting. They can be folded, rolled, wrinkled to adapt to their space or media, whether an exhibition hall, a studio or nature.

In a way, the traditional concept of “painting” has been broken. Painting is dissolved, it opens itself from the walls and slides towards you, every perspective collapsed with the space and plays with the time. She expands herself in space, which opened a passage towards the painting, luring in the audience, inviting them to take part in the exhibit.

At the same time, the traditional concept of “aesthetics” has been subverted. Beauty and micro-corrosion held a dialogue in this semi-transparent sea of plastic: painting, once resplendent and magnificent, has now become something else. Under oxidation process, the gold oxide in the material produces the green and blue parts, unacceptable when making gold foil. Gold is flawless. As a beautiful material, we destruct it to make it ours, symbolic for metamorphosis.

Even so, my exploration has never stopped, because “art” is not an answer but an idea. This kind of thought is rooted in tangible emotions and objects, and is materialized through dis-painting marks and thoughts. They have experienced a series of disintegration, fracture and restoration, becoming a new non-painting and growing in the contemporary environment, showing herself from life experience and memory.

“In the postmodernism we don´t see painting, only the reproduction, or at least, a painting trough the reproduction, in that way the painting and the reproduction are identified and they are similar virtually in the popular glance.”
– Donald Kuspit. “The end of the art”

ARTWORKS

Liquid Gold

Golden paper and fishing line
250cm each thread
2019

Oxid Water 1

Golden paper, resin and paper
100 x 70 cm
2018

Oxid Water 2

Golden paper, resin and paper
100 x 70 cm
2018

Oxid Water 3

Golden paper, resin and paper
100 x 70 cm
2018

Oxid Water 4

Golden paper, resin and paper
100 x 70 cm
2018

Golden Lief

Golden paper and resin
20 x 20 cm
2017

Night in Beijing

Golden paper, resin and glass fiber
75 x 75 x 15 cm
2019

10M of Gold

Golden paper, resin and paper
120 x 1000 cm
2017

Golden Age

Golden paper, resin and glass fiber
40 x 37 x 11 cm
2019

Romantic Blue

Golden paper, resin and glass fiber
30 x 23 x 15 cm
2019

Hidden Love

Golden paper, resin and glass fiber
36 x 30 x 15 cm
2019

Window’s Room

Golden paper, resin and glass fiber
30 x 30 x 17 cm
2019

Light of Beijing

Golden paper, resin and glass fiber
75 x 75 x 18 cm
2019

Oxid Lief

Golden paper, resin and paper
20 x 70 x 20 cm
2018

Oxid on Paper 1

Golden paper and resin
42 x 30 cm
2017

Oxid on Paper 2

Golden paper and resin
42 x 30 cm
2017

Oxid on Paper 3

Golden paper and resin
42 x 30 cm
2017

Oxid on Paper 4

Golden paper and resin
42 x 30 cm
2019

Oxid on Paper 5

Golden paper and resin
42 x 30 cm
2019

Oxid on Paper 6

Golden paper and resin
42 x 30 cm
2019

Oxid on Paper 7

Golden paper and resin
42 x 30 cm
2019

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