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The teller of stories

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They say the art is nothing more than lines and shadows that make stand out volume. This is a perfect setting for the work of the artist Guareta Coromoto that challenges our attention with its constant movement perpetuated by the colors and the characters that populate her canvases.

Your works are a constant development of the figure, either human or animals. Why do you feel this need?
Guareta Coromoto: I think there are things that live with us. Often in a work, even if you begin only with colors, we artists have many ways to start, we have to have a theme and we always start the line, but then we realize that many times we take another path. What happens? I can open the color, but from there I start to imagine a story were is always the human figure or animals. Create a story around that work. I think that ultimately all that is in us, come to us. These characters are inside.


The characters of the daily lives or of your imagination?
GC: From everyday and imaginary. Often I will get it from the stories I heard as a girl, other than my mother tells me, some ancestors. I insert legends, tales and stories, things that are part of the imaginary and others who I recreate.


In his paintings there is a trait with very strong colors, this component is a result of your South American origins or the island?
GC: When I started working in the fine art the pallet was more neutral, as was the human figure, I used greens, blues, ochres and grays. Over time there colors began to protrude and come out here. I began using yellow and also to excel the red, pink and there was a day that I decided to try some shades that fill my soul. Now I do not know if it's because they are inside, or by being born in a South American country, as much as we do not live there they say it gets us. The fact is that I like the music, the rhythm.


The colors highlight the stories you tell on the canvaas, to what extent?
GC: They help by giving it more magic, more contrast. I even use a few, the most obscure has more light, turn out to bring out more forms. I can use black as a contrast to emphasize more the shape and use color to bring out the light and certain volumes.

The canvaas have a lot of energy and movement. Is this a reflection of your personality or not?
GC: It has to do too much with my personality, although I often feel that I have two opposite poles. I am a person who looks calm, maybe is this aspect that most people notice, but I am someone who cannot be stopped. I sleep little, as soon as I weak up I have to get out and walk as soon as I feel the house silently gotta go. Nobody puts me to run, but I like to walk and maybe this move is that I had with me, I had to print on my canvaas. Since the movement is always a constant in my work. And I think that has much to do with my personality and with my training. I've been in fine arts and the first impact of the artistic life that I had was a teacher who precipitated my motto for the human figure and movement, though each of us has printed in essence certain characteristics. I remember in class we have a lady of a certain age who would settle for us, which was on top of a table and in constant motion. We had to learn to draw it as well, which was very difficult for me at the time I was only eighteen years old, but I was fascinated by this body in movement, the woman had very strong forms due to her age. This was it. Then I left two to three years the fine arts, had to restart with another type of concept, but I loved it. Then later I went back this process.


I noticed that you expressed artistically through painting, but you also use other contents, where do you feel most comfortable?
GC: Usually by painting over the years was the most developed as a technique. I always loved sculpture, part of the volume, but I never exercised much because you cannot do everything. It takes a space, an environment and you have to master certain techniques. I always liked pottery, but at the time we were forced to paint only and not to use the volume. All that stayed the bug as they say in Madeira. Lately I returned to rummage in the ceramic, stir in the volumes and in the material. After I keep things and I like to use them as accessories. I am no longer worried about image. The hanger I made for the collection of Moorish design gallery has a collar that can be used as a support for others.

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