Barbara Duran

2021

White Duran Project

Dedicated to everyone escaping from wars, injustice, torture. To all women, mothers, daughters, men, fathers, sons. To all living beings suffering and having the right to be saved. Dedicated to our sisters and brothers.

White Duran Project

WHITE wants to be a work of subtraction, a door, to open perception to empathy.

Barbara Duran

The Making Of

White Duran Project
2021

Ex Cartiera Latina, Rome

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Catalog

white duran project art catalog 2021

White
168 pages
Size cm 26×23
Studio Urbana Editore d’Arte
€ 35

Art is Action

15% of Duran’s art work sales are donated to MAM Beyond Borders, a volunteer association for medical and social support to women in vulnerable conditions. MAM is particularly active in the refugees camps of Lesbos, in Greece. On Lesbos, MAM doctors, midwives, nurses and social helpers are offering every day free medical health care in order to protect pregnant womens, mothers and their children. Art is action: help us bring some relief to world huge humanitarian crisis.
To learn more: www.mambeyondborders.org

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WHITE DURAN PROJECT - ROME 2021 was carried out under the patronage of:

About White

Ignazio Venafro Ignazio Venafro

This exhibition induces a miracle, a sacred memory runs through it, a genetic mind gathering phantoms; in its ceremonious quality it waves an endless fairy tale, soaring on winged tempests, lightly grazing mythographic iconologies linked to the cults dedicated to the numerous feminine divinities.

Francesca Campli Francesca Campli

The body in movement is rendered in an exceptional way in Appearing through invisible, six papers engraved with silver point, in which the cold and decisive signs give back the rhythm of curves and gestures, between shadows and light gaps.

Renato MIracco Renato MIracco

The Artist-Shaman is the one who turns an image into an idol, by transporting it from the ‘territory of the uncontrollable’ to the ‘territory of certainty’. The world-icons contained in Duran’s works are proof of that.

Silvia Lazzarino Silvia Lazzarino

With her works on wood, canvas, rice paper and video, where color takes on an important evocative and symbolic role, Duran leads us through a journey to meet women in all their fragility and courage, grace and beauty, loss and decision, emphasizing the salvific role of the female figure, the one who embraces and generates, protects and defends.

Benedetta D'Ettorre Benedetta D'Ettorre

Duran’s color at times becomes dense, full-bodied but, at the next glance, it acquires absolute lightness. Here is where the color takes on total ambiguity: at a certain time, that powerful yellow, that blood red, the impenetrable blue and the subtle blue become water, sky or perhaps earth.

Studio Urbana Studio Urbana

In the "White" cycle the large canvases are the result of a very close relationship of space/time between classical, renaissance, baroque and contemporary images in an 'eclat', an explosion that produces light, so strong as to make every color white.

Daniela di Monaco Daniela di Monaco

The common thread in Barbara Duran's works is communication and sharing with the viewer. It is an inner spiritual experience that comes from reality, while conveying emotions through images.