ROSER OLIVERAS OLIVER
Ellipsis.

4 March to 10 April 2005

Roser Oliveras is a painter with roots in figurative art, who has worked mainly on canvas and paper by applying various techniques such as gouache, pastel, acrylic paints, pil paints and often also collage. Her work features expressionist power and chromatic richness.

In this exhibition she presents paintings. Paintings on canvas and paintings on pottery. Pottery pieces wich become scuptures. Pottery pieces wich are no longer paintings but visual poems, such as the fired imprint of a pistol or a ham bone. Untouchable jewels, gold and silver bowls, chrysanthemum vases containing the most beautiful face, the fragility of love, the delicacy of a mature vine shoot. Sublime depictions of the tension of fragile things. Bodies that break and are knitted togheter again to show us the beauty of recomposition.

This is the result of two years of work and a process of research into the techniques of pottery and painting undertaken at the pottery workshop of Girona's Municipal Art School. Work carried out by a team made up of the potters -students and teacher- and the artist herself. A process that drew beauty from each new difficulty that arose and from the experience of rupture, of confrontation between artist and the medium she sets out to master, of the conflict that arises when painting does not finish when the artist sets aside her brushes. In the quest for innovation, the production of each piece reaches the bounds of the possible and the mystery and uncertainty of the fire had to be overcome. With the pieces well-fired the workshop achieve learning and a work of art. From the faulty pieces of copper wire, tile incrustations of methacrylate glazes. Thus would the work leave painting on a more personal plane and become sculpture.