The Aesthetic of the Everyday Santiago Toca
A car skids on the pavement in the night, bursting the monotony of the grays and blacks with the red of its lights. One man runs a stoplight, spectator and spectacle for the cars around him; another wavers between keeping going and stopping in the middle of the street. Which way to go? Maybe we should take another spin in our perpetual pilgrimage around town?
Movement is the main protagonist in almost all of Trini’s scenarios, and its corollary, time.
Trini, a painter born and trained in Belgium who has lived in Mexico for at least 15 years, has the ability to mold in the language of painting what Cartier-Bresson termed the “decisive moment” for photography.
Yet there’s something special in the way of perceiving and immortalizing time in a Trini canvas: an apparent contradiction in terms, a reflective pause amid speed. Because as she herself puts it, “By moving, we can fight being captured by what locks us in the rhythm of time.”
But anyway, is it relevant today to paint a car, the speed of the city, the modern, using one of the oldest means of artistic expression: painting on canvas? Is it possible to use this antique and obsolete medium — as some deride it – to portray contemporary life?
In Trini’s case, the answer given in her work, like the artist herself, is neither scandalous nor glaring. Trini’s message is subtle, elegant, austere and emotionally convincing. Something happens when this painter transports scenes we’ve all seen – the testimony to our everyday lives – into painting.
The decisive moment is immortalized, taking on an aesthetic quality and subjective expression distinct from photography, and of course its grandchild, video. In reproducing contemporary scenes on canvas, Trini transmits to us a sense of nostalgia for our own daily experiences, makes us conscious of the subtle beauty of the everyday. Her light — midnight, when everything ends and everything begins – fills us with hope.
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
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Francisca Rivero-Lake Cortina
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Revuelo
Guillermo Sepúlveda
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La estética de lo cotidiano
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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
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