SANDRA PANI: De ser árbol
July 10 - August 23, 2013
THE GALLERY at Visit Addison - VIllage on The Parkway | Addison, Texas
5100 Beltline Road, Ste. 400, (Montford Entrance)
SANDRA PANI: De ser árbol
This series of drawings is inspired by a dream I had at the beginning of 2007. In the dream, I had an inner mandate to look for Van Der Weyden’s painting “Descent from the Cross.” The creation of these drawings was also influenced by my experience of Bach’s “Passion according to St. Mathew,” Francis Bacon’s reflections on the universal archetypal nature of crucifixion and human suffering, as well as Louise Bourgeois’ deeply feminine and personal sculptural expressions of process of suffering. This experience opened up particular inner mandates and possibilities regarding patterns of quest, dismemberment and transformation.
The arch of the larger series as a whole expresses a path through suffering, fragmentation, a returning to nature, a linking back to origins, to the root level and the subsequent transformation of a new identity, a re-integration to the world.
Both the process and the size of these pieces are very important to me. I work simultaneously with the image of a totem or protective deity and the image of a body-tree.
In my artistic work, I am pulled by an inner mandate to establish a ceremonial and ritual process. I literally use my own body. I work with the paper on the ground. I walk around it and lie on it in order to leave an imprint on it. The entering into contact with the paper becomes a whole reflection on the experience of inhabiting a body. The pulse of the ritual is very slow. Each trace has to find its place. The images come into being through a process of drawing and erasing. Through this act of opposites, the mystery of corporeality, in a continuous struggle between presence and absence, finds expression. Even profounder than the presence of the embodied.
- Sandra Pani, 2013
deserarbol.sandrapani.com
This series of drawings is inspired by a dream I had at the beginning of 2007. In the dream, I had an inner mandate to look for Van Der Weyden’s painting “Descent from the Cross.” The creation of these drawings was also influenced by my experience of Bach’s “Passion according to St. Mathew,” Francis Bacon’s reflections on the universal archetypal nature of crucifixion and human suffering, as well as Louise Bourgeois’ deeply feminine and personal sculptural expressions of process of suffering. This experience opened up particular inner mandates and possibilities regarding patterns of quest, dismemberment and transformation.
The arch of the larger series as a whole expresses a path through suffering, fragmentation, a returning to nature, a linking back to origins, to the root level and the subsequent transformation of a new identity, a re-integration to the world.
Both the process and the size of these pieces are very important to me. I work simultaneously with the image of a totem or protective deity and the image of a body-tree.
In my artistic work, I am pulled by an inner mandate to establish a ceremonial and ritual process. I literally use my own body. I work with the paper on the ground. I walk around it and lie on it in order to leave an imprint on it. The entering into contact with the paper becomes a whole reflection on the experience of inhabiting a body. The pulse of the ritual is very slow. Each trace has to find its place. The images come into being through a process of drawing and erasing. Through this act of opposites, the mystery of corporeality, in a continuous struggle between presence and absence, finds expression. Even profounder than the presence of the embodied.
- Sandra Pani, 2013
deserarbol.sandrapani.com
