For this body of work, I used many of my notes from studying art history and the art market when I arrived in Paris in August 2015 and then continued reworking until today. These works were never shown.
I’ve been painting since I’m 19 years old, which means that I’ve been painting for 20 years now (14 professionally). All these years one of my searches was to transform the act of painting as natural as having breakfast or getting dressed. The means for arriving at this notion took me until today to include as much as I can from my everyday life, mainly the notes I daily make, not only when I study but also any idea that I might want to write down or even the grocery list. By doing this I can remind myself that I’m always painting.
For this exhibition at the castle, I’m showing works that I’ve never shown before. Some of them are made of collage with the notes I took when I was studying art market, after my arrival to Paris in August 2015. Prior to this, I was born and lived all of my life in the capital city of Argentina, Buenos Aires.
I got this idea from one of my classmates, after 2 weeks from having started the master and feeling a little frustrated for not having much free time to paint, she told me she liked my notes. That same night I started creating my first paintings in Paris. Needless to say I became one of the best students that year. I literally never missed a class and took tons of notes, almost a transcript from the teachers lessons.
I learned to create with what I have in my hand and in my mind and I still work to erase the distance between the two.