July 16, 2013

Carla Barchini exhibits 42 artworks from different materials at Art On 56 Gallery, Youssef Hayek Street, Gemmayzeh, under the title "Beyond Matter", as we get out of the first approach with a good impression, through concentrated colors, clean colors, and suggestive psychological capabilities.

The multiplicity of materials, from leather, wood and stainless steel, to even a car cover, is subject to great transformations, in shape and color. The young artist, who loves walking in nature, knows very well how to employ her long wanderings and the silence that transfers her from the noise of the city to a state of meditation, thinking, and searching for perceptions and meanings that give her the possibility of transforming the material she uses, the scenes she sees and the ideas that inspire her, into lines, accumulations, and shapes that illusion the recipient. That it has matured in the mind, fermented, and has become out of the ordinary. At that time, the artist works on the material, adding mental constructs to it, and creating wooden, leather, and iron assemblies that are generated from the artist's preoccupation with thinking about what will result from this experience. This exhibition falls into the category of mature and thought-provoking experiences, although the materials used are rambling, accidental, and tacky here and there. It is the first time that I have seen complete and remarkable works, without the author falling into calligraphic chatter or the color material being piled up to the point of suffocation. Carla Barchini suggests that spaces that are passionate about one color acquire a special elegance because they can receive small shapes with pigments that are consistent with the general atmosphere, where some lines that break away from the most important mass in the painting attract the eye and give it a fleeting pleasure that soon disappears after a few moments, without leaving a trace. Annoying or feeling bored. The artist received lessons in wood engraving and its treatment from a classical technical point of view, which opened the way for her to master the treatment of the used material in the best professional manner. It does not give in to the ease of condensing its added signs on a single form, sometimes flat or glued together at other times, as if it enters into a state of enjoying the chosen atmosphere among the components of nature. desirable material. The topics dealt with do not focus on a familiar idea, but come sometimes accidental, and hypothetical at other times. Perhaps it was possible to dispense with the title because what we saw was of the kind that represents a fantasy in known spaces or in an atmosphere crowded with secrets, questions and revelations for which it is not expected that there will be justifications. and causes.