Transmutation 2006 / 118x 78 “
Artist’s Statement
As an artist and Cuban immigrant, I am interested in investigating ideas around transculturation within the postmodern condition, focusing on the creation of surfaces that become memorial testimonies or artifacts.
My current body of work explores an immigrant’s journey between Western and non-Western cultures and the process of integration and re-invention. Central to this exploration is the symbolic image of the wall as barrier, fortress, sanctuary or prison; it acts as a limit that asks to be dealt with in one way or another. The wall becomes both the boundary and the temptation: something that has to be passed over, physically and /or psychologically. I have been developing a vocabulary of painterly images and effects that simulate stratifications of oppositions meant to evoke permanence and transience, absence and presence, belonging and displacement, which are part of the immigrant’s lived experience.
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Monika Roth
September 28, 2015Dear José Seoane Hernandez,
my Name is Monika Roth and I am a painting conservator in Linz, Upper Austria. I was contacted by Trierenberg Art who own a series of 4 paintings, which you painted there on 23rd of November 2006. There are some little damages of the painting surface which I am expected to conserve and restore.
Thus it would be very helpful for me, and I would be very grateful, if you could answer some questions on your painting technique:
Which material did you use for these paintings: Ground layer, paint layers, varnish layer (if there is such). I am especially interested in which binding materials you used.
Please answer per mail. Thank you so much in advance! Yours sincerely, Monika