| Rosa Mascarell artworks for
Trevisan International Art Show Traces of Memory, Ferrara November- December 2008 |
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 With Paola Trevisan, curator |
 Keith Morant (New Zealand) and Elisabeth Agostini (Austria) |
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 With Viviana Puello (USA) and Carol Rowling (Australia). |
Rosa Mascarell’s luminous
painting
speaks to the senses and to the heart. One feels her works more than
one thinks them, which makes writing about her art especially
difficult. The geometrical patterns engage the eye and transport the
viewer to a spiritual realm beyond the immediate material world. The
vibrant colors and craftsman-like gold work assist in this
transformative process, which elevates us from the here and now to a
place out of chronological time and concrete spatial confines. The
circles, spirals, meanderings, star-like pentagrams, and snow flake
hexagons lift body and spirit and put the viewer in touch with the
divine. The labyrinthine quality of many of her forms remind us that
life is a conundrum, but in a mystical or religious way rather than as
an entrapment. Her labyrinths move us toward eternity rather than
finiteness. If there is Lethe, there is also Mnemosyne.
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Rosa’s work is
clearly inspired by the Arabic artistic cultural
heritage so prevalent in her Mediterranean region of Spain. Her
graceful “arabesques” draw on Arabic geometrical design and the
connection between Arab decorative motifs and divinity, but her
techniques (especially the tempera and gilding) also recall Christian
Medieval art. Her labor-intensive methods have much in common with
medieval craftsmanship. Her styles and careful workmanship fuse the
best of Spain’s national artistic traditions with her own personal
talent and eye. Her intellectual background—a graduate degree in
Aesthetics and Art Theory—lurks in the background of her painting but
does not overwhelm the directness of her visual communication. The
immediacy of her painting speaks to the human desire for transcendence.
Rooted in the most basic artistic elements—color and form—Rosa
Mascarell’s painting is art in its purest form. It is visual poetry
that evokes the eternal mysteries of life—our relationship to the
divine, the workings of the mind, and our sensing body in
space. Roberta
Johnson
Valencian Artist Chosen for Italy. Valencia Bussines, 4.11.08- 3.12.08
 The day I've finished the two paintings: Lethe and Mnemosyne Gold (white gold for Lethe), thread and egg tempera on panel. |
 With Kheit Morant and "Straight way to heaven" at the back. (Photo Tricia Morant) |
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 Keith studying Rosa's work. (Photo Tricia Morant) |
 Photo Karl Maenz
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