About flowers, glass, shadows and contemporary art
Notes on recent art work from Patricia Bagniewski

Flower symbolizes many things.Glass is a transparente material. Shadow is
an unfold of light. To transform the matter into symbol, maybe one of the
functions of art. The recent art work of Patricia Bagniewski points to this
open question. The series is composed by glass flowers and its
shadow projections. It is an installation, an interaction of these
elements creates possibilities of immersion for experience of enchantment
and delicacy.
The made up flowers, transparent sculptures from imaginary experiences,
bathed by a specific light, unfolds itself in shadows, universes
parallel to anamorfosis. The lab glass is manipulated by
heat, in an alchemical wit, in a post modern office where it is possible
to give form to what doesn't have. Manipulated in high temperatures, it fuses itself,
moulds itself and let it color. From a given matrix, the natural
beauty, the matter transmutes. The art articulates the junction daily
life with an extraordinary imaginary order.
Symbol of passivity, the flower represents, on one way, development,
perfection and consciousness, in the other hand, points to a notion of allegory,
ephemeral and transience. The glass, when it lets us see through, by its
transparency, captures the eye. The view rests on the flow of the
crossing. The eye goes through what can be seen and encounters the
deformed shadows in fluid exercises of a cosmic dance.
The shadow is part of life, reveals a remote parcel, unfolded,
of an runny presence. What is, is what can be seen. So, contemporary
art presents itself in a field of meaningfull significant
porpositions, where fruition creates a notion of the world.

Carlos Silva
Brasília,July, 2019