The Piano Woman …


“Beyond reason and logic, there lies the intimate realm of intuition which sheds light on a different way of perceiving what is real.  And you can feel the vibrations…” writes art critic Mario Labarca about the work of Venezuelan artist Carolina de Panfilis whose art opens a world of possibilities to the senses and the imagination.
Much like a composer, the artist finds and harmonizes her pictorial theme around music making the silent notes of her shapes and colors, space, volume and texture, dance around the canvass to the rhythm of her vigorous and confident strokes.

But there is no music. By creating this series of pianos, drawn from the figurative and her tacit understanding of abstracted shapes, she repeatedly breathes life into the inert object in an almost surreal fashion. Blurring the lines of the formal element, Carolina distorts the structure of the schematic image to the make it vanish altogether delighting us with her versatile and ubiquitous plasticity. But she has no story to tell, no narrative. She seeks to attain art in its purest form for as she puts it, “I am a painter, just that”.

These pianos are a testament to her heightened quest and brave attempt to delve into the mysteries of the language of art and a new found approach to her artistic conception.