Katalina Gutierrez

News about the artist

2011-01-28T11:20:00.001-08:00

BOOK: OBJECT
Art Exhibit at Paper City Studios, Massachusetts.

October 15- November 9th 2011.

About the installation:

Title: Synesthesia

This project combines illustration, photography, writing, and video.

Synesthesia: Video, 8min. New York 2010

The word synesthesia comes from the two Greek words, syn (together) and aisthesis (perception). Therefore, synesthesia literally means “joined perception”.

“Any Illusion requires space and time to be experienced”

Richard Bach

"If doors of perception were cleansed,

everything would appear to man as it is,

infinite’’

William Blake

I’ve been dreaming lately

not that I had not dreamed before

on the contrary

it seems that my world became more and more

as the shape of an abstract painting

and my mind held onto black lines drawn with ink

over this canvas that was my life

a structure that should sustain me

from falling in the abyss of absurdity and uncertainty.

Sometimes I could hear an echo inside

deeper, in what I call my mind

in this spiral of dreams…

When I allowed myself to be absorbed

by silence and emptiness

I found myself immersed in the endless space

traveling to other realms.

Extract from video script Synesthesia by Katalina G.

NY 2010

Open sky

When I look into the open sky

I see into the eye of infinity

vastness of the Self.

The rhythmic sounds of silence are limitless

as the playful lines drawn over this canvas

spectrum of light

where a vague tone tinted the depth

of this fragmented space…

Birds fly high in the firmament

getting to the getaway for an instant

or perhaps an eternity.

'Imaginary Beings' is part of Katalina's recent work, a compilation of a series of paintings and photographs inspired by mythology from the writer Jorge Luis Borges. Here the artist attempts to capture the impermanence of existence faced with the infinite: A mosaic of the real and imaginary surrounded by the subtle silence of emptiness, a reminiscence of the soul.

Right now the artist is commit to the develop of a video project called Synesthesia. Where she creates a journey through the concept of freedom and faced the meaning of emptiness in the contemporary times.

2011-01-06T21:07:00.000-08:00

PHOTOGRAPHY

"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness."
W. Eugene Smith

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

Diane Arbus

"Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees."
Paul Strand

More photography work at: KatalinaStudio.com
KatalinaStudio.tumblr.com

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Art Statement

As with dreams that sometimes suggest the beginning of

mystical journeys, I like to think of my paintings as

mental scenarios in which it’s possible to contemplate

the surreal aspects of existence. In doing so, I

strive to evoke psychological environments that are

not bound by a particular point of view in time and

space. Instead my imaginary landscapes commit to

incarnating a colorful display of my own sense of

emptiness—an emptiness that is intensely real and all

encompassing, as well as eternally inconclusive.

Within these symbolic settings
my paintings and photographs become

private inescapable rooms in which intimate

conversations take place between metaphorical

characters whose only route of escape is the

construction of their own myths and secrets.

Without departing the field of experience,

my work proposes that within this marvelous realm one

is able to examine two seemingly distant realities by bridging an

anxiety ridden, relentlessly concrete world with a

liberating imagining inhabited by displaced abstract

figures only recognizable through chaotic references

found in their own memory. This anarchical approach

is influenced by my admiration to the Surreal Dadaists

and their aversion to logic. Yet, my color exploration

draws from the German Expressionists.

Katalina Gutierrez

Edited by Angeles Romero