CLARA PECHANSKY

ARTIST MAKES HARMONY OF TENSIONS

James Auer, art critic

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1997

A haunting quality of melodic remembrance, enhanced by brilliant South American sunlight and underscored by a feminine perspective on family life, distinguishes the acrylic paintings of Clara Pechansky.

Pechansky, who lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is an artist with a solid historical sense and a sound technical background. Her imagery stresses the psychic linkages of domesticity while satirizing the political stresses that have wracked Brazil durinbg a 22 years dictatorship. These tensions between natural harmonies and artificial dissonances, genuine feelings and strutting, superficial politicians give the work an air of folksiness and good humor.

But underneath the wit and visual style lie seriousness and empathy, sensitively intermixed. Pechansky's people are all eyes and no mouth. They gather, with seeming passivity, to share the experience of listening to music. But they also are individualized, within the common bond of their relationships. For them, inner space and the out-of-doors are one.

Beauty and harmony are among the artist's major goals, but truth is here, too, sprinkled liberally over a framework of understated loveliness. It makes for refreshing viewing.

A LYRICISM THAT MAKES SENSE

Liana Timm - artist, poet, 2001

Crossing the realms of fantasy and reality, Clara Pechansky defies paper and canvas in their true grandeur. On the plane, she reaches a re-vision of images that have no limit, and conquers the space. Her dense and mocking characters lead to constant questioning.

The impatient ones, I think, should stop in front of Clara´s works. They will discover a strong and contesting message: a lyricism that makes sense. As to the patient ones, let them step faster, to capture the plastic moment of her work: a form of surprise. To the unattentive ones, let them glance and resume looking at the drawings and paintings, because in this come-and-go movement, they will capture the brief and the profound of Clara's proposals.

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