Between 2016-2017 I have been immersed in a great period of search, research and discovery…

I started by eliminating an element that is important in my work, as it is the color, that gives prominence to the other elements that still remain.

The absence of color denotes for me rest, pause and reflection ...

I seek a musicality that is also generated by silence. I called it the “Chromatic pause”

The interaction with the representation is then much more exploratory and slow.

I pursue to present an integral proposal where the descriptive language is conjugated with the abstract language.

As part of my creative process during this period I explored different approaches with my pieces. I was interested in intervening my own work.

After releasing the color affection, one of my many passages start creating a broken line in any segment of the piece. The lines that were created in interaction with the light, work together multiplying lines, shades and contours, finding new ways of exploring my own composition. I had the chance to rediscover my design more deeply, take risks, deconstruct and reconstruct my sculpture. I started giving more importance to the form, the composition, the line as the basic element in design. I continued researching under the idea of “Less is More”. I sought to carry the artwork to its minimum and simple expression, to maintain the harmony and to achieve a great visual impact.

Last year I started working with the effect of light in some series and I got drawn into this world of its infinite possibilities…

It feels like my work expands beyond the reality and becomes flexible, changeable, vulnerable…

My creative process in this new work is the same. Very visual, perfectionist and full of meaning. I like to write my ideas and to be able to achieve a better communication and development of the work.

In art you have to consider a receptive imagination too.

Later I started working with raw metal, giving it its own protagonism and pursuing its own potential. I also wanted to create a harmonious speech with the use of different materials in the same work.

For this purpose I have used Plexiglas, as this material allows me to dialogue with transparencies and enhances interaction with the light.

Transparencies, absence of color, light, shadows ... a new world of possibilities…

Each component or segment in my composition is a language generator where different states can coexist harmoniously creating a diversity that makes the piece more rich and interesting.

The diversity of the materials in the same design speaks to me, speaks to us.

I created volumes through convex and concave forms in my artworks in constant interrelation with form and space. A dynamic language of shadows…

After my “Chromatic Pause”, color wants to return but in a very subtle way. It looks like it wants to melt very softly through my pieces. Colors in a translucent accent eventually reconnect me to my tropical roots.

The interrelationship of materials is the search for infinite beauty.

This duality that is created in the design captivated me from the beginning...

I loved the journey. Now is a closing circle, a history to tell, a necessity to communicate, a life to live…

Mariana Copello