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Un Salto de Fé, by Marijose Terán. A thick, cut-glass vase commands the center of the plane not as a transparent object, but as a prism that violently reorganizes reality.
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Marijose Terán

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Year
2015
Technique
Mixed Media
Dimensions
65 × 47 cm
Status
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Palette
indigo blue, golden ochre, carmine red, off-white, dark green
Brushwork
Gestural splattering and newspaper collage as the support for an impastoed and fragmentary brushstroke that modulates the glass and light refraction.

Curatorial analysis

A thick, cut-glass vase commands the center of the plane not as a transparent object, but as a prism that violently reorganizes reality. Through its ridges and a rigorous play of optical refractions, the crystalline material does not conceal the background, but rather fractures, multiplies, and densifies it into a vibrant mosaic of white impastos, iridescent gleams, and deep shadows. Glass ceases to be an absence to become a dense lens that compresses exterior space into a liquid architecture.

That surrounding environment operates as a field of visual and conceptual tension. Beneath a torrential downpour of splatters in cobalt blue, fiery ochre, and carmine, printed newspaper fragments emerge whose phrases impose an inescapable discursive weight regarding risk, detachment, and uncertainty. The background possesses the energy of gestural automatism and the roughness of aged paper; yet, upon crossing the vessel's perimeter, that overflowing chaos submits to an unexpected geometric and visual discipline, as if the vessel itself were attempting to distill the ambient noise to uncover a coherent structure within it.

An evident dialectic unfolds between the fragility of the glass and the almost sculptural firmness with which the figure anchors the composition. Rather than a traditional still-life study, the vase functions as a filter for the body or the consciousness confronted with an environment that bombards, challenges, and saturates. What is scattered stain and printed warning on the outside becomes concentrated rhythm, dense texture, and prismatic luminosity within. The work sustains its power in that paradoxical stability: the certainty that a transparent container can withstand the impact of the exterior world by transforming disorder into pure pictorial resonance.

Un Salto de Fé

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