Tássia Bianchini

#1
Oil on paper
50 x 70 cm / 19” x 27”
2017

#2
Oil on paper
50 x 70 cm / 19” x 27”
2017

#3
Oil on paper
50 x 70 cm / 19” x 27”
2017

Log
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11” x 15”
2017

Roots
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11” x 15”
2017

Aren’t we all not so beautifully damaged?
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11” x 15”
2017

#7
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm / 15” x 19”
2017

#8
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm / 15” x 19”
2017

#9
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11” x 15”
2017

#10
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm / 15” x 19”
2017

#11
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm / 15” x 19”
2017

#13
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11” x 15”
2017

#14
Oil on paper
48 x 64 cm / 19” x 25”
2017

Gold
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11” x 15”
2017

#16
Oil on paper
48 x 64 cm / 19” x 25”
2017

#17
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 cm / 7” x 9”
2017

#18
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 cm / 7” x 9”
2017

#19
Oil on paper
64 x 98 cm /
2017

During the winter of 2017 out of an invitation to to be working at W119 space for 2 months, as a self-organised artist-in-residency, I entered in a period of winter immersion with painting, in Dordrecht, the oldest city of the Netherlands.

Winter is a season that brings retreat, retrieving, releasing - its the getting to the core and essential of ourselves and our surroundings. It’s a season of letting go. But before spring starts and every new things starts blossoming again, in this transition period, there is another ‘season’ - the one of possibilities. The melting of  the old, giving space to new things to arise.

With this works I intend to explore the contrast and connection of our inner and outer landscapes. The colours and textures that rose up on the painting are vibrant and alive, rising from the background, in contrast with the silent, cold and wet dutch winter of my outer surroundings at that moment. The gestures within the works depict circular and repetitive movements, sometimes fleshy, sometimes in a state of dissolution of matter, sometimes digging to reveals what is underlying, or erasing it - in either form, they all evoke a sense of revealing. The oil paint was worked in its lightest forms, as a liquid, sometimes giving the impression of an watercolour, referring the traditional landscapes painting - a mark of this area in Holland - interlacing with the original solidity of the material, touching upon the corporal expression of a seasonal transformation, they remain in its abstraction - punctuating a focus on the expression of the feeling of spring.

2017





Studio and city views.