Discover the creation in interiors
Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Charcoal on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 39.4x39.4in
About this artwork
In the measure of humanity, a female figure in a dark cloak sits on a precarious bench within a devastated city. She wears worn boots, anchoring her body to the earth and the present moment. On either side, two children dressed as angels—without wings—accompany her, suspended between the celestial and the earthly.
The woman holds a scale, an ancient symbol of judgment, balance, and measure; however, here she weighs neither souls nor possessions:… she weighs humanity. The scale does not respond to a divine law or a perfect order, but to a broken world where certainties have collapsed.
The woman holds a scale, an ancient symbol of judgment, balance, and measure; however, here she weighs neither souls nor possessions:… she weighs humanity. The scale does not respond to a divine law or a perfect order, but to a broken world where certainties have collapsed.
Cristina Fuentes
Argentina
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Experienced Artist
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« I feel the need to see what is on the other side of things, the eternal search to know that there is something beyond what we can perceive. »
Cris Fuentes is a visual artist specializing in painting, based in Argentina, whose works have been widely exhibited nationally, as well as in Italy, Nepal, Ecuador, Denmark, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil. She describes her art as based on action painting, which has converged with expressionism, in which figuration and abstraction complement each other, "blurring a possible boundary between one language and another." A nostalgia for absences and a sense that art is about filling a void have always been present in her works. Her artistic need could not be expressed in any other way than through gestures, with the power of a brushstroke. The figure of the ruin, from a material and conceptual perspective, has appealed to her as a representation of vestiges. Interestingly, ruins constitute metaphors for what interests her as an artist: inner states and the act of immersing oneself within only to re-emerge.