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From Spirituality to Corporality: two expressions, a single search

This exhibition by the artist Vicencia Gonsales presents three distinct moments and, at the same time, interconnected by her pictorial investigation: paintings, paintings-collage and monotypes.
This time, in addition to the canvas support, Vicencia exposes her research on paper support, whether as collage or monotype.
If the previous exhibition was characterized by formal and expressive homogeneity, this one is more heterogeneous in techniques and languages, although equally cohesive in the thematic.
While the last exhibition privileged the deconstructive action of the artist on the values of pictorial language - disfiguration of the figure and discoloration of color -, the current one emphasizes a poetics of composition in which the figure is the central object of reflection.
In fact, the present exhibition consists of the delicate, translucent and fluid appearing of the female body figure from the background of the painting from where it emerges, under colors and shapes with which it simultaneously mixes and distinguishes itself.
The very eroticism of the female body, that appears disappearing in the place where it stands out without being completely delineated, makes explicit the use of the technique of collage by the artist.
That is because the pages of newspaper applied in the midst of the colors constitute an optical texture that helps in the process of revelation-concealment of the figure in relation to the background. The bonded material allows them to be homogenized, making it difficult to distinguish them through sight. It is a remarkable formal resource in the service of poetic expression.
If in her previous exhibition Vicencia got from the back of the canvas - light, transparency and depth - in this one she shows the very opposite: opacity and closeness of the observer. While in her forest scenarios one could penetrate with the eye into infinite depths, in the works of this exhibition, the back images themselves materialize what one immediately sees.
In this sense, the corporeality that constitutes the guiding thread of the present exhibition teaches the enjoyer to see more than the eyes as such allow. It teaches that corporality is from the order of consistency and volumetry, in the same way that the artist's previous exposition taught that spirituality is from the order of transparency, luminosity and depth.
However, the greatest teaching of both exhibitions is that the contemporary artist is always a researcher, a constant experimenter. It is someone who, like Vicencia Gonsales, goes from one opposite to the other in search of knowledge of herself and in the pursuit of all her expressive possibilities.

Antonio Carlos Fortis
ANTHROPOLOGIST

"My art talks about the feminine universe, about my dreams as a child, about the curious look kept in my memory, about the life in the countryside and the smell of wet soil, about the joy of living. I talk about the moments of loneliness, about looking at the immensity of the universe and beyond. I talk about the lived moments, about the non-lived ones, about the plots of the world, about the human being. Creating, for me, it's a necessity."

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