The British Aristocrazy by Francisca Alhers
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The British Aristocrazy 2019

Francisca Alhers

LienzoCarbón vegetalPintura acrilicaPintura
110 ⨯ 160 cm
ConditionExcellent
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  • Sobre la obra de arte
    Nostalgia for seemingly better times, or perhaps, simultaneously, a secret yearning for worse times to come, are woven into Francisca Ahlers’s scenes, in a back and forth of strokes which fluidly depict time and fractured time. The main themes are the past, oblivion, solitude and waiting combined with a poetic method of recovering memory, using black and white with just a few segments of colour. The artist’s usual medium is charcoal, which she uses to give life to ancient, uninhabited rooms.
    The scenes reflect the romance of times gone by, as well as the space’s descent from riches to rags. An excess of Baroque highlights the emptiness of exterior scenes, whilst the same feeling is created inside by the inhabitants, who usually appear as lost characters peering out, seeming to show the spectator around their habitat without realizing that they are actually part of its beautiful decadence.
    The works are mainly composed of frayed lines, eloquently depicting the emotional state of people and elements, often morphing into swarms which symbolize the characters’ neurosis and the energy in the air. As such, the artist accentuates the feeling of anti-habitat emanated by her work, producing a curious and alluring effect: being faced with an apparently uninhabitable environment which, at the same time, seems welcoming, even familiar, awakening our curiosity for these timeless, exquisite and ghostly portraits.
  • Sobre el artista
    La artista chilena Francisca Ahlers quiere transportarte a un tiempo y lugar diferente: el romance del tiempo pasado se filtra en sus piezas y las infunde con una naturaleza seductora. Es fácil perderse en los detalles de sus obras, que a menudo representan amplias habitaciones o espacios rebosantes de elementos decorativos: ricos patrones, texturas y objetos. No es raro ver un pavo real o un gato, candelabros, porcelana cara y alfombras extravagantes entre exuberantes empapelados y lujosos pisos de baldosas. Ahlers utiliza carbón vegetal y, en algunas obras, acrílico. El contraste de los medios y del color con la oscuridad solo sirve para la altura y la cualidad etérea que está presente. Es como si se desvanecieran lentamente en la nada, en el pasado. Los restos de los maestros prevalecen dentro de sus espacios; Picasso y Vermeers, y también las caprichosas ilustraciones de Quentin Blake, Ludwig Bemelmans y Lauren Child. Pero aunque la inspiración proviene de muchos rincones, las obras de Ahlers son, en general, algo completamente diferente. Son originales y nuevos, y refrescantes a la vista.

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