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	100 objects to represent childhood
	This little object use to puzzle me because is so paradoxally spheric and cubic in the same time. And strangelly beautifull.
	The yellow coffee cup was very misterious; every time we had guests the coffee was a fortune teller; some miraculous braun storys use to unfold all around the coffee cup walls and wise premonitive pictures use to shape themselves up, for the eyes of the initiate to see.
	The red fruit was sooo strange that it didn't get eaten; that is because I was so preocupated to study it and to wonder about its shape and fantastic colour, that one day it just got old, it rinkeld and dissapeared.
	My little train use to whisle and made chu-chu noise. Big fun, until one day was pressed too hard... trains are very special objects, still fascinating. Big little gift.
	The little ceramic robin was a very tolkative companion when I was a child; I use to let it on the window during the winter months, so the real birds would not forget to come again.
	The african globe is pretty heavy and it doesn't bounce; is made out by ivory and ebony, or so I liked to think; is extremely precious when look at it closely; it make me day- dream about the wild nature and the red sand where elefants salute from affar.
	My mommy's blue silk box was 1 object of desire; I didn't have unlimited acces to it; it was handmade by my mother when she was a teen- ager and it has pictures of her all around the interior walls and on the top. I don't remember what she use to keep on it, but I use it to preserve small old pictures of my family, when I finally decided to live abroad.












This images are published by courtesy of Gallery KATHARSIS. The rest of the paintings are not available on this site. For more information please contact Mariella Brandusa at Gallery KATHARSIS
copyright 2007 MARIELLA BRANDUSA

100 objects to represent childhood
introduction by MARIELLA BRANDUSA

THE 100OBJECTS
to represent childhood recreate some of the knowledge tools I had as a child, together with the wonders this things contained.

the vision is strictly the child view, thus the artistical language: the very solid apearance of the objects, the colours, the space of the paintings, the size, the inequal composition, the stability and the monumentality of each painting.
the objects are geometrically build respecting the byzantine perspective in accordance to the Efemeride experience I promote.

it is an important aim of this project of paintings NOT to create a symbol of some-thing, not even a symbol for some ideea.

this paintings are not illustrating any story.

I do dislike the use of symbols in the art of paintings. specially in this project the use of any symbol would be a fraude that would contradict the main feeling that inspired me: the marvell of the things I sense.

the title is the kind of name adults create as for holding to a serious concept. the real working name is much more unserious: 1000 toys I love to play life"

the project in it self is ment to be open to an infinity of other objects eventually to be painted because they represent part of childhood, and is the unsymbolical quality of this things that make this possible.