Paula Otegui
Bio
(Buenos Aires, 1974) She has a degree in Visual Arts (IUNA) /Her work has been selected by various juries and she has participated in group exhibitions, Horizonte Vazado: Latin American Artists at the Edge, Instituto Cervantes de San Pablo; National Hall of Painting Fundación Banco Nación, National House of the Bicentennial; Award, at the Klemm Foundation; El Cambio, Latin American and Caribbean Artists, World Bank Artists Program, Washington, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 50th Anniversary Exhibition of the National Arts Fund, 25 years of democracy Show tribute. Pink House. National Salon of Visual Arts, Ibero American Painting Contest, Aerolineas Argentinas, MNBA; Bonifacio del Carril Stimulus Award, National Academy of Fine Arts, Borges Cultural Center. 2015 Beijing Biennial, representing Argentina, which is held at the National Museum of Art of China.
Statement
The stylistic and technical solvency with which Paula Otegui supports her fascinating settings is remarkable; the expansive balance that she amalgamates them seems natural, without dissonant accents or inordinate resources. A certain flora, an unlikely geography, a rare figuration have grown on the canvas with the same opulent simplicity with which nature imposes its infinite forms on the real world. In this current, the iconographic factors of a botany that are closer to the invention of the marvelous tale than to scientific nomenclature, and of a landscape that is paradisiacal longing and arbitrary germination rather than referential resonance, are interwoven and camouflaged. Here and there strange characters can be glimpsed, joyfully imbricated in these gardens of sketching delights, humidified by an atmosphere of hypnotic irradiation.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
