A New Step - Maria Fernanda Cuartas , 2014 - Maria Fernanda Cuartas

About the Work

In this work of art I wanted somehow to express the nostalgia, that for one reason or another, people who are forced to escape from reality or from some sort of adversity, feel. 

People who are fleeing from their present and in their suitcase they take with them their memories, their experiences, their past…. hopefully by departing in this train that person would, far away, find some answers to his doubts, of past loves, frustrations, hopes, of winning and losing, of love not reciprocated, of failures and hopes, all in his suitcase…

About the Artist

Maria Fernanda has through time worked on different expressions of art, from landscapes and still life at the beginning to abstract art and figurative later on. Now Maria Fernanda has fused together the abstract and the figurative creating a new form of art which moves from the real to the unreal, form the expected to the unexpected and from silence to solitude. There are no faces but the spectator is able to perceive how the figures see, listen and feel.

Maria Fernanda Cuartas brings a new aesthetic concept within the figurative genre of Art Deco Nouvelle, which could be translated from French as “a new form of” and her innovations consist on the fusion of this new figurative genre with new freedoms of artistic expression.

IVÁN COELLO ANGEL
Journalist.