Fragment and Whole 2019 to 2023.
My artwork contemplates how a thing comes into being and is real-ized. Like an excavated cluster of organic debris, bones, and earth crust, my art finds an active place between the record of a thing and the thing itself. In observing natural forces, I draw from schemes and structures intrinsic in nature, which present orderliness and equilibrium. Pondering on transience and dissolution of all things, I create through experimental and improvised means of decomposition and composition, destruction and construction.
Circling the poetic language of abstract painting and documentation of making processes, my artworks take forms of wall and floor sculptures, paintings, collages, ceramics, photographs, and installations. In creating works, I’m interested in the moment of insight that happens when something can’t be known or understood but is perceived as sensation, feeling, and imagination. I’m fascinated by the act of looking and how it can reveal its internal-external paradox between experiencing and the naming of it, between sensory input and cognition.
The recurring themes may include origin, being and time, the self and the other, fragment and whole, impermanence and permanence.
Marcela Gottardo, 2016
Is a Brazilian and Italian artist. She lived in Los Angeles, California, USA, for twelve years, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in 2014 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 2012 at Otis College of Art and Design. Marcela moved to Pistoia, Italy, in 2015, where she takes residence with her family and works. She is particularly interested in philosophical ideas about the nature of time, being, duality, wholeness, and fragmentation.