DEEP PAINTING
Deborah Pruden
about DEEP PAINTING
Pruden's work bursts with an expressive vitalism in strong geometric structures. The classical composition serves as an excuse to let the pleasure of the act of painting take over. With this hedonism of firm strokes, she points out and denies the borders of both the frame of the painting and the classificatory labels of art history.
Her way of painting is part of improvisation. White is the resource with which she finishes defining the painting and underlines the forms.
Her work is part of the return to painting after the rise of conceptualism in the seventies. It is influenced by the Bad Painting movement that flourished in Germany in the 1980s, which revisits the historical avant-gardes discussing the notions of quality as they are raised in classical modernity. The recovery of abstraction occurs at this time in a freer, more eclectic way, introducing gestures typical of free abstraction into formally organized compositions. Within this trend, she is familiar with the painting of the German, Albert Olen.
Her main influence is early 20th century painting -especially cubism and futurism- and its drift towards the 1950s and 1960s, where the avant-garde was recovered extemporaneously, by little-known painters, such as Francisco Bores.
Mariana Cerviño, August 2022
Translation Carolina Buzzetti
Past Shows
Suspended beuty
Artworks by Nicolas Mastracchio. May - Aug 2022.
RANGE
Artworks by Fabian Burgos. Mar - May 2022.