FERNANDA REGE
A REFLECTIVE, GOSTHLY MEMOIR OF THE BURNING PARANA DELTA
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words MARYAM ARSHAD
The Paraná Delta region was on fire. With it a diverse wetland ecosystem, native species, billowing endless smoke, and a river that was at its lowest point in decades. For Fernanda Rege, who is based on one of the several islands in the delta region, the unparalleled changes that were unfolding became unavoidable. “Endangering the wetlands turned nature into a political subject.”, she says.
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WETLAND
Tania Puente, Buenos Aires, 2020
Wetland of Fernanda Rege (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1973) is a prolonged pictorial exercise that combines the use of natural and traditional dyes, watercolor and charcoal to bring out a spectral cartography of the wetlands of the Paraná Delta, territories that throughout all In 2020 they were devastated by numerous fires for agricultural and livestock exploitation.
CRACKS OF HOPE
Tanya Bridge. Buenos Aires, 2016
Thought is movement. As we walk, we think. We move with an idea in mind, no matter how clear or diffuse it is. In this act there is a desire that becomes direction; however, knowing where you are going is not a certain fact. Displacement mutates and exerts agency over those who move: their habits and affections change, their memories are reconfigured and their identities are reinforced or reconsidered.
THEN IT IS JUSTICE
Daniel Botti. Buenos Aires, 2014
When going through Fernanda Rege's painting, the first image that is constructed, even prior to the visual understanding of the work itself, is that of depth. Each situation raised, each world embodied is part of several readings. A first now based on colors and techniques where at times experimentation is relevant; but if the observer decides to go further, penetrating the work, suggestive almost by definition in his palette, he can transcend the mere aesthetic fact to be flooded with meaning. Then various levels appear as waves in them, the seas of this artist.
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Alejandro Gabriel Fernandez, Buenos Aires, 2009
In Fernanda's painting, timelessness gives rise to sensuality playing a starring role in each of the scenes. Through the movement, the chosen colors and the safe brushwork he uses, he shows us a marked personality as an artist and his ability to express himself aesthetically. The body and human warmth are always present, warmly inviting the viewer to an exaltation of the senses. When we look through those windows, the first thing we find is emotion, without overlooking technique, and then we are trapped by the force of beauty that opens the staging to a visual journey through his compositions, where water gives life with its seminal virtue.
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Ariel Mlynarzewicz, Buenos Aires, 2008
Fernanda is a painter of temperament.
Painting for her is vital, I think, her true vocation. She is not distracted, all her time, the one she chooses, is for her great passion: painting. His brushstrokes, his thick material, the variety of colors he uses give him away.
His versatility resolves a varied theme, where figuration and abstraction come together to achieve paintings of impeccable craftsmanship.
Sensitive, deep and subtle, an echo of her interiority, this sample opens the path to the path of beauty.
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