by Fatima Tosca
Painting : oil, acrylic
110 x 110 x 4 cm 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.6 inch
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Dimensions cm • inch
110 x 110 x 4 cm 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.6 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: New Zealand
"Some say that painting no longer has the status that it enjoyed in the past and that it has been substituted by other techniques that are more advanced and convenient for the expression of modernity. Technological advances open up possibilities hitherto unimagined for the representation of contemporary art and culture, which in fact contributed to the gradual abandonment of the painting as the principal medium of artistic manifestation. It is barely taught in art schools: students have study materials in front of them that more closely resemble philosophy. Perhaps because of this, when we encounter works from a painter of essence such as Fatima Tosca, apart from the surprise and immediate fascination, some questions arise: can painting today as a cultural device manages to encompass all of the complexity of modern life? Can it provide questions and their appropriate answers, reflecting the thoughts and concerns of one facing life as it is today?
We examine the subject in the paintings of Fatima Tosca: the argument that a work of art, whatever may be the technique employed, uncovers all of the personal questioning of the artist, like a manifest of her subconsciousness. So we see fragments of the circus, of nature, of the feminine: characters almost melancholic and lonely bathed in light and colour floating before us: dreamlike reminiscences of symbolic figures. Despite seeming casual and disparate, these elements are joined to the idea of equilibrium through the conflict of opposing forces, of harmony arduously obtained by sacrifice. The nostalgic dance of the images refers to the “carnival of life” to the everyday strenuous but fantastic battle of the human condition.
Other signs of the action of the opposing principles that are in conflict are the processes of painting itself: the “impasto” used in the majority of her works is an aggregate of oils and acrylics, substances that are chemically immiscible that magically become stable under her determination. White, her signature colour, carries a unique and intense luminosity, and one can almost see in it all the shades of the palette. With disconcerting assuredness, Fatima sets colour against colour with her strong brush strokes, transforming density into an original fluidity.
From whichever point of analysis, the consistent and robust production of Fatima Tosca is marked by a high degree of identity. Seducing not only by the refined beauty and poetic repertoire; but also yielding an imponderable and precious quality, disguised by the apparent absence of critical concept; that subtle and provocative subjectivity, answering those earlier questions, because much more than contemporary, her work will always be relevant to the present".
Anne Smith 2014
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Presentation
Fatima Tosca, Salvador, BA, 1960.
Painter, illustrator.
Self-taught, she began his artistic activities in 1976 with drawing and watercolor, illustrating books, diaries and magazines. In 1979, she entered the Visual Arts course at the Catholic University of Salvador-UCSA, but abandoned it in favor of the Law course at the Federal University of Bahia-UFBA.
In the 1980s, she was trained at the Instituto Mauá in Salvador, working with artisanal and materials research, and was selected by the OAS for the Inter-American Course in Artisanal Design. She also exhibits in a series of group shows in Bahia and other states. In the 1990s, she started a series of solo exhibitions, in addition to presenting her works in Madrid (Spain) and Frankfurt (Germany). She is awarded by the Mokiti Okada M. O. A. Foundation in 1990 and at the 1st Bienal do Recôncavo Baiano, among others.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 – “Fatima Tosca" – Fabio Pena Cal Art Gallery – São Paulo, SP
2018 – “Water" – MCR Art Gallery – Salvador, BA
2014 – “João, Chicas e Jocas, Todos que Chegarem" – Smith Galeria - São Paulo, SP
2013 – “The Park, One Circus and Many Gardens" MCR Galeria - Salvador – BA
2011 – Barra Mulher Award, Shopping Barra – Salvador – BA
2009 – “Watercolors", Fábio Pena Cal Galeria – Salvador – BA
2009 – “Da Cor à Cor", MCR Art Gallery – Salvador – BA
2007 – “Retrospective", Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Brasília – DF
2006 – “Pretexts " MCR Art Gallery, Salvador - BA
2004 – “Water and Oil", MCR Art Gallery – Salvador - BA
2003 – “Fátima Tosca", Visual Gallery - Brasilia - DF
2002 - "Paintings", MCR Galeria - Salvador - BA
2002 - "Between Forests, Oceans and Continents", Fabio Pena Cal Art Gallery - Costa do Sauípe - BA
2000 - Cover and illustration of the book "Jubiabá" - Jorge Amado (Ed. Correio da Bahia special) Salvador - BA
1997 – Fátima Tosca “Paintings", ATRIVM Gallery – Salvador - BA
1996 - Fátima Tosca - Paintings. Solo, Gallery of the Xunta de Galicia - Madrid - Spain
1994- "Searches and Enthusiasms. Individual, Documenta Gallery - São Paulo - SP
1993 - BRAZIL - "Small Formats, Few Words", Documenta Gallery - São Paulo – SP
1992 – Fátima Tosca “Paintings", Performance Art Gallery – Brasília – DF
1992 – Fátima Tosca “Pinturas", Mokiti Okada Foundation – São Paulo – SP
1991 – “The color of white", Anarte Gallery – Salvador - BA
Collective Exhibitions
2011 - Overture, Smith Galeria, Sao Paulo, SP
2005 - Fátima Tosca and Leonel Mattos "in 11 Words", Fabio Pena Cal Art Gallery - Salvador.
2004 – Fátima Tosca and Valdeck de Garanhuns, Derweltkulturen Frankfur Museum – A.M
2004 - "Janelas", collective, Fabio Pena Cal Art Gallery - Costa do Sauípe - BA
2002- Chapel Art Show, Collective - São Paulo – SP
2000 - Exhibition and launch of the book "100 Plastic Artists from Bahia" Museum of Modern Art
2001 - Chapel Art Show, Collective - São Paulo – SP
1999 – Arte Salvador 450 years, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia – Salvador – BA
1997 – Galerie 37, Museum fur Volkerkunde – FrankFurt – Germany
Awards
1992 – Mokiti Okada Foundation award – São Paulo – SP
1990 – award of the VI Salão Curitiba art – São Paulo – SP
1979 – Drawing category award, I salon MEC – Funarte – ECSal – Salvador - BA
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