Abstraction in Action Fernanda Laguna https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/fernanda-laguna/

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Extract from “Fernanda Laguna. Central desde los márgenes”  by Inés Katzenstein, in Otra Parte Revista de Letras y Artes, no. 28, Autumn-Winter, 2013 […] The artistic language is a language of communication; a language to speak outside of the art system, outside of the institution of art. It is a form of communication—it should not be a code within a closed system. […] To me, art allows a collective ritual from something personal. It is about sharing something. It is about revealing to other people a very personal experience through which an object or situation is created. […] Sometimes I depart from an idea, not always; sometimes I let myself be guided by the physicality of the act of painting. Sometimes I start by just moving the brush with a little bit of black acrylic paint because I am seduced by the shine of that color, and I begin with that first sensation of the need to paint. Then I paint a cat or anything, and I keep painting the following needs that come up, which sometimes are basic needs that arise from having seen something on the table, but I never say “I am going out to buy green yarn.” If I have pink yarn, I make everything with pink yarn—I think the reason it is there is because it’s calling me. And I let myself be taken by the emotion that the materials produce in me; the lines or curves, the colors… I see something such as a textured wall and I say “I will put a texture here,” and I avoid asking myself if that is good or bad (which is something that is hard for me, but I avoid thinking about it because many times I paint things that I don’t like) or if there is something that appears as a necessity and I don’t like it. And if I were to say “I don’t like it,” and would take it out, I would miss the opportunity of learning something new. Then I try to keep going or postpone, and at some point something will come out of that.

 

Fragmento de “Fernanda Laguna. Central desde los márgenes” por Inés Katzenstein, en Otra Parte Revista de Letras y Artes, no. 28, Otoño-Invierno, 2013 […] El lenguaje artístico es un lenguaje de comunicación, un idioma para hablar fuera del sistema del arte, fuera del instituto del arte. Es una forma de comunicación, no debería ser un código dentro de un sistema cerrado. […] Para mí el arte logra hacer un ritual colectivo de algo personal. Se trata de compartir algo. Se trata de revelar a otras personas una experiencia muy personal a partir de la cual se crea un objeto o situación. […] A veces parto de una idea, a veces no, a veces me dejo llevar bastante por lo físico del pintar. A veces empiezo solamente moviendo el pincel con un poco de acrílico negro porque me seduce el brillo de ese color, y empiezo con esa primera sensación de necesidad de pintar. Y entonces pinto una gata o cualquier cosa y sigo pintando las siguientes necesidades que me van surgiendo, que a veces son necesidades muy básicas que surgen de haber visto algo en la mesa, pero nunca me pasa que digo “voy a salir a comprar lana verde”. Si tengo lana rosa hago todo con lana rosa, igual si está ahí es porque me llama. Y voy dejándome llevar por la emoción que me producen los materiales, las rectas o las curvas, los colores… veo algo como una pared texturada y digo “voy a poner una textura acá”, y evito pensar si está bueno o no –algo que me cuesta, pero evito pensarlo porque muchas veces pinto cosas que no me gustan–, o hay algo que aparece como una necesidad y no me gusta. Y si dijera “no me gusta” y lo sacara, me perdería la posibilidad de conocer algo nuevo, entonces intento seguir y posponer y en algún momento algo se arma.

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October 16, 2013