Notes from the Heart
The Paintings of Anna Rita Alatan
Today contemporary art is very much in vogue, and rightly so. The beautiful and the elite rub elbows at the openings. Such was the case at Anna Rita Alatan's recent and succesful art opening/cocktail party at the art gallery "Palazzo Margutta": an inviting room set-up expecially for exhibitions on the famous Roman street of the 100 painters.
"There is no life without Art" affirmed Picasso. And for Anna Rita Alatan, Art is truly life. She needs it to get ahead, to leave her mark, to deal with the busy existence of the day-to-day. It is therapy that helps her mask and overcome her anxiety and express her feelings. Anna Rita Alatan confesses, "Painting is love for me; it frees up the mind from false modesty, it makes me dream, and it is what I would like to transmit to everyone who gives my paintings a minute of their time."
A canvas, in front of her eyes, is the synonym of absolute expressive freedom to give voice to her secret world. Including the secret world of her heart. And so, appropriately, this show of hers is entitled..."Notes from the Heart": 27 large pulsating canvases of notable artistic depth (two in particoular are, in my opinion, truly beautiful - "Gypsy dance" and "Peony")
In Anna Rita Alatan's language, the secretly autobiographical elements mix with those out-in-the-open. The painter always succeeds in creating a clear reduction of all those elements in a homogenous structure that is wonderfully integrated. The paintings often produce an emotional impact, sometimes even violent, but nonetheless worthy of meditation.
Anna Rita Alatan is a thoroughbred of the palette. She knowingly rejects obstacles that are too small. She as an acute intellect, a prestigious signature that is quoted worldwide (with successful shows in France, Austria, U.S.A., China, and United Arab Emirates) and she doesn't rest on her laurels. She probably interprets the easy consent of others as the beginning of her artistic end.
She is a painter who could also change her consolidated artistic language and depart towards the unknown to discover new artistic languages.
This last pictorial stroll down where the heart leads is an invitation to each of us to find a time for an hour of love and light so as to warm our hearts, which have unfortunately been left numb.
Of her paintings are rythms of colored volumes where the image sometimes assumes the role of being the pretext. After many years of work and research and her painting has still not lost its inventive quality, the gusto for risk and the temptation to walk over a void, balancing herself with her colorful paintbrush...
In this way, an artist forces us to consider everything from a fresh point of you carrying with it importan messages: without special effects, without wasting too much breath. All of it, happens with an economy of strokes and emblematic colors.
Just like what happens with real artists.
Flaubert said "the heart is a wealth that you don't sell and you don't buy, but that you give." Anna Rita Alatan with her latest personal show has presented us with the gift of a mirror into her shimmering heart, suffused with many mysterious (and fascinating) existential wonders.
The Paintings of Anna Rita Alatan
Today contemporary art is very much in vogue, and rightly so. The beautiful and the elite rub elbows at the openings. Such was the case at Anna Rita Alatan's recent and succesful art opening/cocktail party at the art gallery "Palazzo Margutta": an inviting room set-up expecially for exhibitions on the famous Roman street of the 100 painters.
"There is no life without Art" affirmed Picasso. And for Anna Rita Alatan, Art is truly life. She needs it to get ahead, to leave her mark, to deal with the busy existence of the day-to-day. It is therapy that helps her mask and overcome her anxiety and express her feelings. Anna Rita Alatan confesses, "Painting is love for me; it frees up the mind from false modesty, it makes me dream, and it is what I would like to transmit to everyone who gives my paintings a minute of their time."
A canvas, in front of her eyes, is the synonym of absolute expressive freedom to give voice to her secret world. Including the secret world of her heart. And so, appropriately, this show of hers is entitled..."Notes from the Heart": 27 large pulsating canvases of notable artistic depth (two in particoular are, in my opinion, truly beautiful - "Gypsy dance" and "Peony")
In Anna Rita Alatan's language, the secretly autobiographical elements mix with those out-in-the-open. The painter always succeeds in creating a clear reduction of all those elements in a homogenous structure that is wonderfully integrated. The paintings often produce an emotional impact, sometimes even violent, but nonetheless worthy of meditation.
Anna Rita Alatan is a thoroughbred of the palette. She knowingly rejects obstacles that are too small. She as an acute intellect, a prestigious signature that is quoted worldwide (with successful shows in France, Austria, U.S.A., China, and United Arab Emirates) and she doesn't rest on her laurels. She probably interprets the easy consent of others as the beginning of her artistic end.
She is a painter who could also change her consolidated artistic language and depart towards the unknown to discover new artistic languages.
This last pictorial stroll down where the heart leads is an invitation to each of us to find a time for an hour of love and light so as to warm our hearts, which have unfortunately been left numb.
Of her paintings are rythms of colored volumes where the image sometimes assumes the role of being the pretext. After many years of work and research and her painting has still not lost its inventive quality, the gusto for risk and the temptation to walk over a void, balancing herself with her colorful paintbrush...
In this way, an artist forces us to consider everything from a fresh point of you carrying with it importan messages: without special effects, without wasting too much breath. All of it, happens with an economy of strokes and emblematic colors.
Just like what happens with real artists.
Flaubert said "the heart is a wealth that you don't sell and you don't buy, but that you give." Anna Rita Alatan with her latest personal show has presented us with the gift of a mirror into her shimmering heart, suffused with many mysterious (and fascinating) existential wonders.
Hugo De Soto
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