Exclusive Interview: Cinta Vidal Agulló Discusses Her Paintings of Inverted Architecture
In her studio in Cardedeu, a small town near Barcelona, Spain, Cinta Vidal Agulló is busy creating complex acrylic paintings on wood panels that reflect how our external realities often do not reflect our internal natures. Vidal Agulló sees her work as a metaphor for the ways in which we shape our world – the impossibility of completely understanding those around us, yet the personal ability to navigate the maze of life that we all inhabit.
To counter-balance her finely crafted, small-stroke paintings, Vidal Agulló has worked in one of the most prestigious scenography ateliers in Europe since the age of 16. At the atelier, she works on a massive scale, creating backdrops for operas – giant paintings that she works on while standing and painting on the floor with a large, broomstick-sized brush. As far as her personal work goes, she currently has an exhibit at Miscelanea BCN in Barcelona, Spain.
Your images appear to have several angles that could each be the main view, multiple angles or top-sides to a scene. Please tell us a bit about what these paintings represent for you – how do you go about staging such intricate settings?
With these un-gravity constructions, I want to show that we live in one world, but we live in it in very different ways – playing with everyday objects and spaces, placed in impossible ways to express that many times, the inner dimension of each one of us does not match the mental structures of those around us. The architectural spaces and day-to-day objects are part of a metaphor of how difficult it is to fit everything that shapes our daily space: our relationships, work, ambitions, and dreams.
I paint realistically (as opposed to working in the abstract) to help the viewer to recognize the quotidian space that we all inhabit, assisting them to understand the ordered maze that is this proposal. I want the viewers to recognize what they are seeing, but to see it in a very different, unstructured, broken way.
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