Clare Rojas

Copenhagen

Her current exhibition marks a new departure for Clare Rojas. Known for her illustrative paintings full of folk art imagery and rich storytelling, this latest body of work is contrastingly minimalist, geometric, and abstract. As a result, what is notable about this body of work is perhaps not what is featured, but what is not featured. Gone are the figurative aspects, the use of tapestry patterns and the feminist undertones and, in exchange, what remains are stripped-down representations of expansive space.

However, in this dramatic transition Rojas has not lost what made her earlier paintings great. This new minimalist work is neither austere, nor aggressive. The color scheme is bright and warm, reminiscent of her folk-art roots, and as a result the lines are softened and the images become more intimate and more accessible. For Rojas, with this new style of painting it is no longer a question of painting the story itself. Rather, it is a question of painting what happens during the in between moments of a story, or what happens when there is no story at all.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner

April 5 – May 18, 2013
Ny Carlsberg Vej 68 OG
1760 Copenhagen
Denmark

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