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" THE TREES OF MARYLAND " |
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| This cyber-interview was
realized by e-mail in February 2001, |
| by the artist Susana Weingast (SW)
to the artist Cynthia Grinfeld (CG), |
| born in Córdoba and established
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
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| SW---How did you start painting? Or how did you
decide to be an artist? |
| CG---It is due to
the great stimulus that I received in my house and also to the love
that my family, gave me. It would have been difficult not to become
an artist with so much poetry around. |
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| SW---You established yourself in the USA, what
influenced you most in your studies,
paintings and drawings? |
| CG---I arrived to USA in 1990 and began to
paint in the basement of my house. I was still adapting.
From the basement, I could see a garden with two enormous azaleas
and a huge oak . The trees, in Maryland where I was living,
turn into real palettes of the colors of the leaves.
In that intimacy between the nature and I, my first works were born.
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| SW---What did the experience of living in the
USA leave you? |
| CG---The experience of
living in another country extended my perspective,
allowing myself to understand different
cultures.
It also allowed me the tracing of thousands
of imaginary lines that influenced directly
the development of my ideas. |
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| SW---Whom do you consider to be your Teachers? |
| CG---My Maestro Aldo Bruni whose sensitivity
and generosity were always present.
He taught me many things, but the one that
marked me most was the one about humility.
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| SW---Which artists of the History of the Art
impacted you? |
| CG---Many great teachers have impressed me.
Some influenced me defintly like: Brahms and Mahler in music,
and Chagall, Kandinsky, Miro and Modigliani in
art. I value a lot the great argentinian
Maestro Raul Soldi. |
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| SW---In what kind of
surfaces do you prefer to paint? |
| CG---I don´t have a
preference. Painting makes me feel wonderful. The
techniques are part of my creation, part of the dialogue
between the materials and me in that particular moment. |
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| SW---What do you want to transmit through your
painting? |
| CG--- I want to transmit innocence to the
people. The possibility of getting in touch with theirselves. I give many things. It's like
a kaleidoscope that turns and forms
different images that, can be freely
interpreted by the viewer according to his sensitivity. I share a
space of free expression through my work. |
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| SW---Do you want to give some message, with
your monochromatic palette? |
| CG---I try to communicate and get in contact
with other sensitivities as well as with
myself through my work. I want to allow other
people to reflect theirselves in my
paintings. |
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| SW---Do you think that
your work atracts the attention of the spectator by the
technique or the image? |
| CG---I believe that my artworks atracts the
attention of others because it has magic
and poetry. There are people whom never I have
seen and they write e-mails to me, telling me that they have liked
and have enjoyed my artwork. That makes me feel very well. |
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| SW---Do the images take
place by automatism or do you make sketches? |
| CG---I have thousand of images in my head and
many memories and dreams. Everything is mixed and it is combined turning
into a painting. |
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| SW---What do you feel when you have planned an
idea, and the images and the materials cause effects that you
didn´t expect? |
| CG---I love it! I feel the enchantment!! The
picture is alive !!!! |
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| SW---What do you feel when the artwork is
finished and ready to be exposed? |
| CG---Generally, my
paintings have different rythmes, and when they are
ready to be exposed, I feel a strong emotion. It is time
for the exhibit and that is very strong. |
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| SW---Tell me an anecdote. |
| CG---I remember an experience that took place
in a very pretty exhibition in an art gallery. There was a painting of mine there,
that means a great deal to me. For my surprise the director of the gallery,
gave a preferential place to my picture, in the entrance, so the people that arrived saw
my picture. Suddenly I saw a girl that took a photo of my painting. Later, she took
another one of her friend with my painting, and then continued taking photos of
different people with the same painting.
So I asked her if they were students of another
atelier? She said to me that they weren't artists nor students. She said that all
of them wanted to have a photo of
the painting. Then she asked: do you know who
painted it? I said yes. She smiled and went away ! © 2001 |
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Susana Weingast |
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sweingast@sinectis.com.ar
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| Copyright 2001 - Susana Weingast |
| Allowed its partial or total reproduction, only
with the name of its author. |
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