Anna Taratiel

Superparamagnetism
120 x 120 cm
Paper Tape Collage No.5

Anna Taratiel, previously known as Ovni, is a Spanish contemporary artist born in Barcelona (1982). She completed her study in graphic design at Vapor University, Terrassa, in 2002, as well as in painting from Escola La Llotja, in 2005, and received an MA in Art direction from Escola Elisava, Barcelona, in 2010.

She has developed a particular style, dominated by colourful and abstract mental landscapes that live in the imaginary space. Using a wide range of simple materials like wood, cardboard, thread and painting, she creates collages and installations that provoke an intriguing visual confusion between the two and three dimensions of space. Anna’s work is not about abstractions but about the creation of structures and layers in a fantasy world that’s almost tactile.

Taratiel creates her own landscapes by transforming movements into visible forms. The organic and the static, the two poles which make up our lives, flow into Anna’s work. These poles communicate with each other, unite, work against each other, change fronts, disappear and surprise in completely unexpected places and orders. She pushes people and objects, machines, antagonisms and similarities into an exchange, into communication. Without orientation, detached from former meanings, characteristics, valuations and determinations, the artist commits herself and her works to the forces, and their new statements are released in this process.

Taratiel’s latest body of works consists of paintings on canvas, drawings and assemblages of found materials, such as tape. The smooth and clear-cut qualities of the recycled pieces of tape invigorate the graphicness of her work.

Anna Taratiel has been pursuing a parallel path both in the gallery world and out on the street. So far she exhibited in Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, USA and Brazil, to name a few, and her art is seen in the streets of many cities.

She is currently residing in Barcelona.

http://kallenbachgallery.com/annataratiel
Superparamagnetism
120 x 120 cm
Paper Tape Collage No.5