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6/4/2004

Portraits d'attitude

Espace Herold 07, Paris

Eduardo Guelfenbein

Eduardo Guelfenbein was born in Chile. His origin defines his relation with society and with the art world giving him an immediate familiarity with the instinctive primordial culture of his country, where a connection with nature is intact , deep and vivacious. There, art is anchored in the expression of vital and primitive forces, which, even while being preserved, have evolved, or modernized.

Guelfenbein's paintings are eternal, and overflow with energy and violence due to the rapidity of the brush strokes and the explosive colors. They transfer primal sensations that suggest the disturbing implosions that inhabit man. Eduardo Guelfenbein has grown and lived in a succession of other cultures, Australia, Italy, and France, which have also fed his imagination. Each uprooting enriched his path.
He studied painting at the Brera Fine Art Academy in Milan. Then in the 80's, his itinerary took him to the United States, where he developed a technique to that marries action painting and graffiti, marked by a fluid figuration, where the archetypal figure dominates. For him, form supports color, and it is the pretext for the unrolling of imploding pictorial gestures on large formatted canvas.
Guelfenbein's latest work draws on a moral attitude, a physical spiritual being, a thought suggested by a movement, an inclined head, or the position of a body. All his work represents human beings in a solitary state, reflecting on the human condition. Each painting offers an aspect of meditation, where the being communicates with his inner self. Each state – 'Pride', Tears', 'Ideal,' is symbolized by a face slightly sketched, almost sculptured in pictorial material, that detaches itself from a uniform background, red, yellow, white, shot with dripped sprouts of color. These projections seem like filaments, connecting man with a mysterious universe. A reality barely represented, where the painted theme is tucked behind a technique, at the limit of abstraction.
Guelfenbein's reflection about man and painting, expressed in 50 significant and flamboyant paintings, starts a new cycle, inspired by his recent move to Paris.
Dominique Stella

Contact tel : 00 33 6 24693737
Espace Herold 07, rue Herold 7, 75001 Paris

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