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Reality Sustained in the Instant   Esteban Velarde (EXPRESSIONS)

Time is immortal yet ephemeral; it is bridge and chasm, reality and chimera. Nothing is more personal or more shared. Nothing is as abundant yet so scarce.  Nothing more objective than time exists, but there is nothing more subjective. We speak of it as something familiar: We measure it, we waste it, we feel it.

Trini shows great simplicity in her personality, in how she conducts herself. And it’s this same lack of pretension that separates her from the rest: Trini is honest as an individual, and as an artist.

Having lived in Mexico for years, Trini absorbs the influences of this country, but holds on to her past and preferences. She randomly emphasizes her r’s when she speaks, comfortably showing herself to be a foreigner. She heeds her concerns and engages with what truly intrigues her. Her work does not pretend, force, cheat or exaggerate. Her preoccupation is time, and her paintings study the ways in which it is manifested.

When she paints, she captures what happens but doesn’t impede it. She just lifts it from its context, reinterprets it, dissects it and sets forth a discourse that arises from the most elemental unit into which time can be divided: the instant. Trini synthesizes the impression that the reality inspires in her, and interprets the dynamics of space, light and movement. The chance moment unravels the story, and she ties it up.

Her works aren’t frozen gazes or just nostalgic efforts to record an act: They are expressions of  what transpires. Like present participles in grammar, they describe acts that have begun and continue,  actions carried out in time. In Trini’s paintings, as in the very universe, everything at rest is apparent.

The subject matter may be a fixed moment, cold or merely analytical, but Trini manages to involve us. The work of this artist is the end in which essence is revealed before appearances.  It portrays the “otherness,” the diversity of interior worlds. It is an emotional impression of fleeting images. It is the instant, and its symbolic potential.

This painter isolates the moment of the daily event and casts a more fixed and continual gaze upon things, in an attempt to express more than intellectualize. Its background is life in a world ever more rapid, and she merely sets it forth for us.

But realism imbues Trini’s work with an almost objective quality that leaves room on the canvas for interpretation, for the viewer to project himself into it.

And what is superimposed on the conscious is the contrary novelty of the instant, which snatches us out of the supposed placid continuity in which we all live constantly. It divides life into fleeting acts for us. Thus we think that maybe we ourselves are only brief, fortuitous moments, speaking of the parts that want to be the whole.

Having prolonged time, Trini leads us to reflect on the progress of intangibles — of the unrecoverable that we soar past, of the immediacy and inertia of our urban passages, of  the randomness of the instants that are being constructed within us.

We cannot live two identical moments. Although time drags beings and things into oblivion, art is capable of interrupting it, of stretching it out. Each second is the bearer of something different, and Trini’s work is the continual elaboration of the absolutely new.

Art Nexus 
José L. Barrios
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Decisiones 
Issa M. Benítez D.
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Trini y su figuración del movimiento 
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Trini la fugacidad permanente 
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Luz 
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Luis Carlos Emerich

Dos 
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Revuelo 
Guillermo Sepúlveda
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La estética de lo cotidiano 
Santiago Toca
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La realidad afianzada en el instante 
Esteban Velarde
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Déjà vu  
Gerardo Villarreal López
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Enlaces

www.doctorhugo.org
www.gerhard-richter.com
www.jordiboldo.com
www.museodemujeres.com
samvangheluwepinxit.blogspot.mx