Netally Schlosser: Orchestra

Netally Schlosser's paintings entertain a strong connection with the world of experience and matter. These paintings are based on the identification of
materials, relations and forms of behavior that exist in the world, and on their translation into the possible spaces and dimensions of painting.

This is a process of free translation infused with desire; it allows for darkness and hum or, for
deformations and associations, to leave their imprint on the "flesh" and formal
arrangement of each painting.
 

The process of observing the paintings is shaped by a constant vacillation
between the realms of the fantastic and the concrete. The paintings themselves
call attention to the simultaneous existence of these dimensions in a number of ways.

Schlosser's use of paint often underscores its materiality: the intermediate hues she chooses cannot be clearly defined, thus leading to their association with other substances – such as mud and concrete – whose material state, texture
and degree of dampness differ from one another. The different ways of treating the material are also concretely and directly represented in the

paintings – the combed surfaces, the plastered gray expanses.
 

In many of the paintings, one may identify a certain type of recurrent deformation: stretched-out forms created by means of elongated brushstrokes; twisted lines that gravitate towards the limits of the canvas, as if these limits exerted a special
pull on the painted forms. The geometric quality inherent to these lines reveals the manner in which form divests the depicted bodies of their volume and
materiality. Lines are created through encounters between different spatial expanses; points, in turn, are created through the intersection of two

lines – the form is always charged with carrying space. This exhibition is composed of paintings that come together in a single space (like the single mental or concrete space in which they were created). The connections forged between these works create a powerfully charged space, in which various forces operate by diverting,
deforming, enveloping and setting in motion.