..Valeria Molina

Valeria Molina, urgency artist “…I want to express the secret but immediate access to wild horror, suffering, blind roads and aspirations lying on existence’s abyss from where they rise to relentlessly assault our lives calmness”. Mark Rothko, 1970 At its time abstract expressionism meant the discovery of gesture’s eloquence, of matter’s expressive possibilities and of the ancestral language arising from the subconscious. Painting that finds its highest asset in the artist’s supreme subjectivity, resignified in plastic conventions endowed with powerful expressiveness. Valeria Molina has this kind of sensibility and, even though she is a very young artist; her painting is closely tied to this past or, in other words, the nostalgia of that past artists regard as modern age tradition, that to what this way of understanding art refers to: pioneer movements utopias, virtually theological arguments about plane or pictorial painting, gestural forms or hard-edge style, etc. In this sense, it is worth mentioning that Valeria does not make use of “quotation” or appropriation, resources frequently used nowadays. Instead, exploiting her own ability to resignify those plastic elements, she deploys them to meet her own and urgent expressive needs. This provides her canvases with the gesture’s irrepressible “physical” sense, that which gives a permanent freshness to the moment of creation, including the hesitations and “accidents” artists like the late Picasso or De Kooning used with that skill Valeria is developing thanks to her sound academic training and lengthy workshop hours. Her mastery of color deserves a special mention: her palette is sometimes so sumptuous and refined in her use of violets, reds, oranges and carmine that it is reminiscent of that immanent character present in some paintings of the most classic Rothko. Other times, it is bright and aggressive, showing its language yelling potential. Then lemon yellows, greens and bright blues seem to compete with the stripes and scratches of a graffiti-like drawing both powerful and sound, as it is required by the firm structure of its sharp and balloonish shapes. In one paintbrush strike- like painting, Valeria Molina, urgency artist, manages to merge tradition teachings and its epigones with the blatant and rebel approach of more contemporary artists. Daniel Vidal Febrero 2007 Biography Valeria Molina was born in Tandil where, at a very early age, she started her art studies at the Centro Polivalente de Arte in that same city. Then she went on with her formal training at the National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredon” and attended the workshop given by artist and teacher, Daniel Vidal. Education 2007- seminario de reflexión con Luís Felipe Noe. 2003-2006- tomo clases con Daniel Vidal. 2001-2003- curso diseño de interiores en Integral taller de Arquitectura- 1994-1997- Asistió a la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon. 1988-1992- curso sus estudios secundarios e el Centro Polivalente de Arte de Tandil Exhibitions Mayo 2007- Espacio de Arte la Paz Marzo 2007- Mosto & Rojas Arte Agosto 2007- preseleccionada para el premio Bienal Aaga muestra en Fundación Federico Klemm.