2003

José Bento Ferreira

Centro Universitário Maria Antonia

Along Renata Tassinari's artistic career, her paintings have been pursuing the extract of color identification, hallmark of a craftsmanship that conjures up the art of Brazilian master painter Alfredo Volpi.The sort of vagueness that allowed forms to gather in a space more permeable to differences.

Renata enhances these differences and presents her art based on contrast, be it among colors, even when crossed by gray shadows, be it among textures, sometimes marked by vigorous brushstrokes that draw out a bright shine from black color, sometimes without accidents appeasing bright colors on dull surfaces.

The gray area upon which the eye relaxes materializes other colors, as Taísa Palhares observed in a recent article on the artist´s work. It is not a background from which forms would emerge. It acts like silence in a melody or pauses in a speech, enhancing the relations between forms more than forms themselves. Since all expressions happen by means of relations, the painting questions the world by making it become the development of the same painting even if for just a moment.

The gray area upon which the eye relaxes materializes other colors, as Taísa Palhares observed in a recent article on the artist´s work. It is not a background from which forms would emerge. It acts like silence in a melody or pauses in a speech, enhancing the relations between forms more than forms themselves. Since all expressions happen by means of relations, the painting questions the world by making it become the development of the same painting even if for just a moment.