WALKING ON THE WAVES, THE SEA AS REPRESENTATION
On Thursday 13th February, the Galería del Paseo space located in Punta del Este, Uruguay, inaugurated the solo exhibition Caminar sobre las olas (Walking on the Waves). The exhibition, conceived by the Argentinean artist María Marta Fasoli (Mar del Plata, 1964), consists of a series of watercolours that explore the symbolism of the sea from the perspective of personal identity and its capacity to represent the dynamic character of the creative process.
In the text adressing the exhibition, María Marta Fasoli makes clear her relationship with the sea, the key to her work: "The first swell appears in my name: a name that, by design or fortune, contains in itself twice the word "sea", creating from the beginning its own flow. It is a kind of determinism that, right from the identity, points out, ambiguous and aquatic, the destiny of my work". It is from this first instance that the artist proposes that the spectators approach the artworks.
On the other hand, Fasoli emphasises the importance of the sea as a representation of thought. In this way, her watercolours allude to the ephemerality of the waves that extend in a continuum, but which can only be portrayed in a fleeting, instantaneous gesture. However, the artist takes it further. The language she uses is based on fragmentation and compilation: thus, it would seem that Fasoli collects events of thought that are linked in the aesthetic expression that they evoke in her.
"The nature of the sea is to upset every prognosis, that is its magnetism: to keep us alert to the imminent possibility of change, as in the 19th century paintings that captivate my imagination, where the sea is captured in the exact moment of shipwreck. In the attempt to rescue a fragment of that ungraspable totality, the painting becomes a minimal trace in the immensity of the sea and its rhythm", adds the artist.
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"En vez de estrellas", María Marta Fasoli. Acuarela y tinta rotring sobre papel.
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"Sin título", María Marta Fasoli. Acuarela y tinta rotring sobre papel.
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"Veo el cielo cambiar", María Marta Fasoli. Acuarela y tinta rotring sobre papel.
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"Sin título", María Marta Fasoli. Acuarela y tinta rotring sobre papel.
About the artist
María Marta Fasoli is a multidisciplinary Argentinean artist. Trained as a photographer —language that has an evident repercussion in the compositions of Caminar sobre las olas— she has moved throughout her career towards other media under the tutelage of renowned artists on the Argentinean scene: Jorge Demirjián, Eduardo Stupía, Juan Travnik, Fabiana Barreda and Tulio de Sagastizábal, among others. In recent years she has exhibited in important institutions such as the Moma PS1, the Fortabat Museum and The Clemente Cultural Centre.
