“Nobody ever thinks of asking a tree to shape its treetops the same way as its roots”.
Paul Klee
The images Beatriz de la Rúa presents today emerge from her deepest inner self, as the outcome of her life and her artistic maturity.
The starting point is the fertile and informal blot, still intensely worked, where the shapes become bodies by means of a drawing of strong and well-defined outlines, contrasting with the lightness and subtlety of the backgrounds.
The paper is the selected support of those encounters, where these is no symbolic interpretation but a visual manifestation of the inner beats whose enchainment expresses a very personal poetry.
Earth as the “Matrimony of Heaven and Hell”, as William Blake says, is the place where Beatriz searches: though the thee which sinks its roots in the ground and raises its branches toward infinity; by the stairs that descend and ascend communicating light with darkness; through her characters minute or gigantic vertical axes, passengers of nightmares and paradises; though her birds of gloomy flights which awaken the active participation of the spectator.
Her work ranges from the obvious and tangible essence to the unknown, to the unseen, with no more rules or boundaries but the ones she herself proposes.
The metaphors achieved between the blackness of the drawing and the transparency of the colour open up multiple possibilities of dialogue.
Beatriz paints and lives profoundly. Every step and every work, is a beginning and an end at one time, is a scale on the path to a permanent self- improvement.
This is her first individual, after long training years, which acknowledges her vital commitment to the ineffable adventure of creation.