RENATA PELEGRINI

Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

Artist statement

"The present interests me as time and mainly as a place. Architecture and my surroundings have always informed my body on how to relate between the now and the consecutive. In my paintings and drawings this tense dynamic is in the presence of the gesture and also in the speed of the execution; both building an architectural structure that is ambiguous and a place that is unstable: a fragile solidity." Calligraphy has been one of Pelegrini’s triggers to her artistic work. The massive training in this field has intensified the awareness of the movements of the hand and body, such as pressure, direction and angulation. This continuous exercise has guided the artist in her process and has marked her work in different levels along her career. As painting became more familiar, Renata transformed the calligraphic metric into free and intuitive brush movements. In this sense, the perception of the body in the space around her also becomes noticeable once the surroundings start to integrate the artist’s creative process. Thick and quick brush strokes bring about architectural structures and non-places are constructed. Horizontal and vertical lines are applied to the minimum so that the perspective comes alive. Settings like these, however, go beyond the limits of plain representation and prepare the background where the practice of the unconscious, the memory and the observation coexist. The marks of the process are kept clear even when Pelegrini’s expression moves toward...

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