Barbara Duran

  • Memory

    In this contemporary time (where everything is repeated, without respite from the past, from which nothing is learned) gazes leave us astonished. The gaze of a little girl that seeks what she has lost, appears only for an instant, sudden and brief – a flash – that erupts in the apparently normal every day. Only the memory and the awareness of a personal garden of wonder will allows to survive the void which can never be filled.

  • White Duran Project

    White is a multitude of events, stories, intimate, collective, political, biographical tales, which express a circular world, which repeats the same stories, the same mistakes, the same horrors, the same revenge, life itself, in the uniqueness of each individual.

  • Time

    A diachronic rupture in time happens, that is juxtaposed to the acedia of our gaze as women and men of the XII century, such that, what could seem to us defined and circumscribed in the history of art manuals, finally appears similar and familiar. Nevertheless, the conceptual operation does not have the coldness of the research done with scalpels in history and in the tragedy of history: Each face, as an icon of the splendor of a single gaze, speaks to us and interrogates us, asking us to open our heart to a totally secular and civil pietas.

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Metamorphosis

Arte Borgo Gallery
Rome 2024

The cycle of paintings collected in this exhibition represents the ultimate (but not definitive) outcome of the previous journey, a destination that does not forget what has been but presents itself through the mutations of its essence and form.

For these works, Duran drew inspiration from many sources, starting with the concept of reciprocity of the Confucian Golden Rule, which led him to work even more intensely on the idea of metamorphosis, developed through painting that, in a circular and continuous manner, transforms into its archetypal eternal return—moving from darkness to clarity, from obscurity to splendor.

These paintings lean towards abstraction, but the painting does not lose the power of language; instead, it engages in a secret dialogue where Heraclitus seems to meet Confucius, and where the brush immerses itself in the flow of poetic words—an paradoxical encounter where the verbal and the visual intertwine in a mysterious fusion.

The application of paint energetically, lightly, and rigorously supports the outcomes of this process, in a progression where the brushstroke abandons the tactile substance of chromatic matter and chooses a path of lightness and brilliance—pigments that shine with refined nonchalance, variations on metals, gold in its different declinations, and the marks of a silver tip.

Lorenzo Canova

ART Gallery

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