Luisanna González Quattrini: Accroupissements

Luisanna Gonzalez Quattrini paints visions of a timeless world that tell the truths of today. But under the shimmer of fresh colors, these truths conceal disconcerting oddities. The artist seems to cultivate a childhood of the gaze that reveals the repressed adults. On his canvases, innocence competes with regression, reasons seem governed by bodies, instincts dominate urbanity; in his subjects as in matter itself, the fluids control the masses.

The artist elaborates her subjects on small paintings that she uses like a notebook. Some are then taken up and reworked into larger compositions. One of his main subjects concerns the overflows of consciousness. The recurring presence of animals in his paintings testifies to a pre-civilized attachment to the environment. Between them, his characters also allow their animality to express themselves and thus find themselves in relationships that are foreign to social norms.

The omnipresence of water invites us to let ourselves be carried towards the subconscious images attached to this element: water evokes both the matrix of all life and the danger of death. Between mountains of impasto and liquid expanses, his works are therefore ambivalent: they allow both a symbolic reading – revealing a relationship to the physical world free from all taboos – and a more fundamental reflection on the constituents of painting. Luisanna Gonzalez Quattrini was born in 1972 in Lima. Trained at the Geneva University of Art and Design, she currently lives and works in Basel.

David Lemaire
Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

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