Ana Sánchez, Recent Works.

After numerous exhibitions, Ana Sánchez (Salamanca, 1964) begins her new journey with the Astarte Gallery presenting her latest work focused on the study of the tactile and sensory qualities of paper. One more step in an artistic career that, if previously noted for its visual language, now throws a fine arts discourse to be stripped of all the expendable for the evaluation of the subject as a trigger for the experience.

Juntitos | 24 x 34 x 20 cm | Molded books | 2011 @ Ana Sánchez.

Painting without a brush, where the support is the speaker, where representation disappears and the traditional two-dimensional habitat opens and expands to touch the field of sculpture. However, we are still talking about painting. Our artist is still considered primarily a painter but her most recent work analyses the materiality of the medium and is immersed in a separate ambiguity from other disciplines. The deconstruction of the painting process and the re-evaluation of traditional methods and materials of production have enabled her work to find new support structures.

As spectators, we face a painting practice that rejects conventional visualisation methods. Under the stimulus of a different experience than usual, we are forced to view in another way and return to the origin of the material, which Sanchez presents in its essence.

Negro | 106 x 140 cm | Painted paper | 2012 | detail. @ Ana Sánchez.

This material is paper, for which the artist has demonstrated a special devotion from the start of her career. For Ana Sanchez these known sensations that this component continually sends us have not gone unnoticed: its corporeality, texture and fragility remain relevant in a work that appeals to our sense of touch, coaxing our hands with an immediate desire for proximity.

Jennifer Calles.

Laberinto 2 | 102 x 32 x 11 cm | molded papers | 2012 @ Ana Sánchez.

Venue: Galería Astarté, c/ Monte Esquinza 8, de Madrid.
Dates: until 24/03/2012.

EN METALOCUS:

"Fragmentos" | Ana Sánchez
published in: M-012/013 | A09 | p. 120

 

In this work, in particular, I investigate repetition, the tearing and displacement of paper originating from billboards, books, cards, etc..., in search of rhythmic organisation. I use each piece of paper as colour palette, like musical notes, combined with others, create a score, a melody.

The goal is an articulate construction based on fragments, just as thoughts. Guillotined pages or posters that are interwoven, occupying the entire surface, as a recurrent theme.

Ana Sánchez