Games in the forest_let the wind talk March-April 2016 Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales MNAV Claudia Anselmi's career as an artist is spontaneously associated with drawing and engraving, techniques that emanate from her intrinsic naturalness. She is her work in the most authentic way an artist can be revealed through her images; her forests are an expression of herself, a showcase of her inner being, susceptible to changes that emerge in her work, changes that are transmuted through creativity. Subtle and elegant in her more line-oriented conceptions, solid and vigorous in her most passionate renderings. The unfolding of her fascination for myths displays the formal richness of each skilfully applied technique and the legitimacy of her “heart laid bare”, to quote Baudelaire. The work, a deployment of symbols in space, is also a display of refined technical resolution, adept handling of lines and a richness of nuances generated in each image despite the limited use of colour, in an ensemble that shifts between peaceful harmony and intimidating restlessness: from a scarceness to a plethora of plastic elements and from the solidity of cut-out metal to a disembodied shadow, passing via the ethereal of the silk panels. A multiplicity of forms of expression as an itinerary through a real and imaginary personal universe. “The poetic imagination is not an invention, but a discovery of the presence", Octavio Paz (The Bow and the Lyre). María E. Yuguero Curator
The trees do not allow the forest to be seen, and it is due to this fact that the forest exists. The function of the visible trees is to make the rest of them latent, and only when we fully realize that visible landscape is concealing other invisible landscapes do we feel that we are inside a forest. José Ortega y Gasset, Meditaciones del Quijote
I always imagined the panels through the different textures of the materials and drawings, like one large unit. The circular shape of the montage is part of the life cycle and goes hand in hand with the experience that each visitor contributes to the piece. Ortega y Gasset wrote, “the forest flees from one’s eyes”, as presences and absences are intuited through the opacities and shadows proposed by the semi-transparent panels of the installation. Towards the end of the path we find the silhouettes of my grown-up children, who have already crossed the forest and continue walking towards the end of the hall where the, as yet unfinished, pencil mural extends across the museum’s wall. Claudia Anselmi
Memories of wind (Memorias de viento) A story performed through dance, within another story in motion Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales MNAV Concept: Claudia Anselmi Choreography and dancers: Manuela Casanova and Sofía Dibarboure Costume design: Maite Bastarrica Collaboration: Ignacio Vecino and Gustavo Jauge Video record: Fernando Alvarez Cozzi, MNAV
A catalogue accompanying the exhibition was published, containing texts by Enrique Aguerre, Stella Elizaga, María E. Yuguero, Marco Maggi. Design and chronology by Eloísa Ibarra. Collection of press articles and publications, with texts in Spanish and English, photographs of the exhibited works by Eduardo Baldizán. Montevideo 2016, 100 pages Viewable in pdf format on the museum's website www.mnav.gub.uy/claudia_anselmi MEC-DNC, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Montevideo 2016
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Exhibitions / Installations Games in the Forest_Let the Wind talk Monochrome_105 Tints of Red Dreams of Silence Self Portrait_Flight Dialogues Loyalty Blessed Water_Source of Life Games in the Forest Elevation Snow Space_Time Work in Progress The Day in your Hands She_He Layers Dis-coverings Graphic Works Fantastic Landscapes Element
I always imagined the panels through the different textures of the materials and drawings, like one large unit. The circular shape of the montage is part of the life cycle and goes hand in hand with the experience that each visitor contributes to the piece. Ortega y Gasset wrote, “the forest flees from one’s eyes”, as presences and absences are intuited through the opacities and shadows proposed by the semi-transparent panels of the installation. Towards the end of the path we find the silhouettes of my grown-up children, who have already crossed the forest and continue walking towards the end of the hall where the, as yet unfinished, pencil mural extends across the museum’s wall. Claudia Anselmi
Memories of wind (Memorias de viento) A story performed through dance, within another story in motion Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales MNAV Concept: Claudia Anselmi Choreography and dancers: Manuela Casanova and Sofía Dibarboure Costume design: Maite Bastarrica Collaboration: Ignacio Vecino and Gustavo Jauge Video record: Fernando Alvarez Cozzi, MNAV
A catalogue accompanying the exhibition was published, containing texts by Enrique Aguerre, Stella Elizaga, María E. Yuguero, Marco Maggi. Design and chronology by Eloísa Ibarra. Collection of press articles and publications, with texts in Spanish and English, photographs of the exhibited works by Eduardo Baldizán. Montevideo 2016, 100 pages Viewable in pdf format on the museum's website www.mnav.gub.uy/claudia_anselmi MEC-DNC, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Montevideo 2016
Games in the forest_let the wind talk March-April 2016 Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales MNAV Claudia Anselmi's career as an artist is spontaneously associated with drawing and engraving, techniques that emanate from her intrinsic naturalness. She is her work in the most authentic way an artist can be revealed through her images; her forests are an expression of herself, a showcase of her inner being, susceptible to changes that emerge in her work, changes that are transmuted through creativity. Subtle and elegant in her more line-oriented conceptions, solid and vigorous in her most passionate renderings. The unfolding of her fascination for myths displays the formal richness of each skilfully applied technique and the legitimacy of her “heart laid bare”, to quote Baudelaire. The work, a deployment of symbols in space, is also a display of refined technical resolution, adept handling of lines and a richness of nuances generated in each image despite the limited use of colour, in an ensemble that shifts between peaceful harmony and intimidating restlessness: from a scarceness to a plethora of plastic elements and from the solidity of cut-out metal to a disembodied shadow, passing via the ethereal of the silk panels. A multiplicity of forms of expression as an itinerary through a real and imaginary personal universe. “The poetic imagination is not an invention, but a discovery of the presence", Octavio Paz (The Bow and the Lyre). María E. Yuguero Curator
BIO
CONTACT
WORK
CLAUDIA ANSELMI