{"id":360,"date":"2016-06-20T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/new\/en\/?page_id=360"},"modified":"2021-11-15T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:35:32","slug":"critics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row heading_color=”primary-1″ header_feature=”yes” padding_top=”40″ padding_bottom=”20″ margin_bottom=”0″][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1464000607430{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Critics<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row heading_color=”primary-1″ flex_height=”yes” middle_content=”yes” bg_type=”color” padding_top=”30″ padding_bottom=”30″ bg_color=”#ededed” margin_bottom=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]I do not know Claudia Hendel’s history, I have never heard her story.
\nI know her work. I speak of the feelings it gives me.
\nThese objects,\u2028 these plates, give joy. They are not sad, they are vital.
\nAs if full of strength. They are also strange. But just strange. Not evil.
\nI feel the strength of someone who loves to search, to find,
\nbut also the joy of someone who loves the task to which they have submitted themself.
\nI’m going by impressions.
\nI speculate upon stories that perhaps do not exist.
\nBut I must confess that I feel a sense of geography here.
\nThey are not abstract. These are figures.
\nIt seems like the representation of water in its movements.
\nIn its agitation. Splashes. Overflow.
\nPerhaps drops. Perhaps pearls.
\nDecoration. Decoration. Very rich;
\nAlmost Byzantine. Oriental.
\nThere is precision. Work but also violence.
\nAnd then the feeling of the mirror. Not so much to reflect.
\nBrass presents reflections. But I think they are significant here
\nbecause they create the effect of change.
\nAs with Wood’s lamp. Its function here is metamorphosis …\u2028<\/em>
\n<\/em>Giuseppe Chiari<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]

\"\"<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1464015082317{margin-left: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1466440647649{margin-left: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]For Hendel… the “expulsion” of her painting from the shining support has always signified a forward-moving flight, a blazing action. Today, that destruens moment is somehow transliterated onto the two-dimensional surfaces of the tradition of painting. Basically nothing has changed, at least not in the artist’s unconscious design: because what she had once obtained with brass and fluorescent enamels is now being recovered through the dynamic exasperation of the sign, in the radiant patterns and the chromatic vortex, in the newly released pyrotechnics of a cosmic handwriting…
\n<\/em>Giuliano Serafini<\/span> <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1464015099201{margin-left: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1466440717542{margin-left: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]I would like to have asked you: where do the colors come from before ending up on the still canvases? Perhaps by chance, by material work, the spray from a tube, the flow of acids on a brass plate. Maybe. Or maybe you brought them inside you, through hundreds of nights, and transfigured by forgetfulness and together true to a fact, an emotion.
\n<\/em>Giorgio Van Straten<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row heading_color=”primary-1″ bg_type=”color” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″ bg_color=”#ededed” margin_bottom=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1464015174824{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1466440746861{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Restless atmospheres , turbulent
\nlike late baroque Venetian skies which,
\nfrom creamy whites and loaded grays
\nand deep with swollen clouds in storm
\nchange to intense purplish red
\nwith a devastating emotional violence,
\nin the dense material-like magma,
\ndespite the careful smoothness of a surface
\nwhich seems to combine the restlessness of the informal
\nwith the dilated abstraction of the monochrome.
\nWith this new work Claudia Hendel resumes,
\nwith a more conscious expressive maturity, her path of ongoing research:
\none that has always distinguished her “way to paint”.<\/em>
\nLara-Vinca Masini<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1464015234382{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1464015247374{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\"Claudia[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row footer_feature=”yes” padding_top=”30″ padding_bottom=”30″ margin_bottom=”0″][vc_column][vc_column_text]The works of Claudia Hendel do not put themselves forward merely as” a field of colour\u201d as \u201ca draft\u201d as \u201ca monochrome “, but they present a sort of atmospheric density, soft, dusty, light;\u2028the apparent monochrome thickens as if in a dynamic vortex, as micronized, by colours that seem to merge into a vast atmospheric fabric.\u2028 And more recently, on this basis, as fluid and constant movment , she has added some abstract marks, as if to try to stop a fleeting surface …
\n<\/em>Lara-Vinca Masini<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row heading_color=”primary-1″ header_feature=”yes” padding_top=”40″ padding_bottom=”20″ margin_bottom=”0″][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1464000607430{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Critics [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row heading_color=”primary-1″ flex_height=”yes” middle_content=”yes” bg_type=”color” padding_top=”30″ padding_bottom=”30″ bg_color=”#ededed” margin_bottom=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]I do not know Claudia Hendel’s history, I have never heard her story. I know her work. I speak of the feelings it gives me. These objects,\u2028 these plates, give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiahendel.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}