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Mazé Mendes - 2018

Oil on canvas

100,00 cm height x 100,00cm width x 0,10 cm depth

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Mazé Mendes

“My dialogue with painting is a field open to insertions, not leaving out the multiple possibilities of leaving the plane, and it includes sculpture-objects – which are also part of this Universe”

Symbolically, the vertical line represents the spirit descending into matter, or the energy that comes from the Divine: it has a masculine quality; it is emanent, dynamic, energetic, fiery, dominant.

Every type of energy has an opposite polarity: the horizontal line is this symbol – in opposition to the vertical line. It represents the energy of the soul; the feminine; the receptive and absorptive qualities of Mother Earth. The horizontal line is an ancient symbol of matter and of the material world.

An occult maxim says: “God operates in geometry”. It is through the intense observation of the geometry around her that Mazé Mendes explores her essential raw material: the line.

In compositions that are sometimes vertical, sometimes horizontal, these lines – or constructions – inspire the titles of her works.

Her work has evolved in distinct stages. In the 1980s, the human figure was the central subject of her painting, and from that time onward she has represented it inserted into the urban scenario. Little by little, the figures have disappeared and given way to major planes of color, prismatic forms, multiple or fragmented. Then, the geometry of the signs of urbanism transformed her paintings into veritable exercises in abstraction, thus establishing a dialogue close to the production of one of her greater influences, the Chinese artist Helena Wong.

Her interest in the curves of oriental brushwork and the quest for synthesis in color and in image are now essential features of her painting.

Her interest in the curves of oriental brushwork and the quest for synthesis in color and in image are now essential features of her painting: words, oriental ideograms, fragments of indigenous and ethnic objects.

Words, oriental ideograms, fragments of indigenous and ethnic objects, graphics and urban impressions are also a constant in her works. “My dialogue with painting is a field open to insertions, not leaving out the multiple possibilities of leaving the plane, and it includes sculpture-objects – which are also part of this Universe,” she says.

Observant, and conscious of the ephemeral and transitory nature of the urban landscape – which can change in a trice – she reveals that whenever she is in a city she carries her camera, to capture scenes that later materialize in her works. She has experience with prints and drawing – and says that for her as a painter, the camera lens is only a filter through which she sees the world. In her more recent works there is a certain symmetry constructed by the horizontal line that divides and duplicates the landscape; the scenes appear blurred, as if observed from the window of a moving car – thus ephemeral, provisional.

She has a degree in painting and design from the Escola de Belas Artes do Paraná, with postgraduate studies in Art Education from the

Faculdade de Artes do Paraná and an extension course in Printing and the History of Art, and has held art workshops in various cities in the State. From 1984 to 2008 she lectured at the Arts Faculty of the State University of Panama (Unespar). She is in demand as judge in arious artistic competitions.

Her work has been in dozens of solo, salon and group exhibitions, in Brazil and other countries. Prominent among these are the cultural exchange in 2008 in Kobe, Japan, at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of art. Her works are in the collection of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná, the Museum of the Federal University of Paraná, the Municipal Museum of Art of Curitiba, the Museum of Art of Santa Catarina – and many other galleries, consulates and private collections.

She was born in Laranjeiras do Sul, Paraná, and has lived and worked in Curitiba since 1969. Now at the peak of her artistic production, she believes that only constant work takes an artist to maturity and success. “Art was born with man, from the moment when man first communicated through his drawings and inscriptions in caves. Hence the importance of art in the world: it has become infinite, because it will always tell our story, throughout time.”

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