MARÍA TINAUT

Her most recent body of work is articulated around the construction of a pictorial language without carrying out the direct exercise of painting. All the works use old mattress covers with striped motifs. The series was started in 2021 and the size of the first supports was that of individual beds, symbolically representing the present absence of an adult body in each work and forming pairs.

In these pieces, a transformation has occurred in the sizes, expanding or reducing the original textile materials to generate new formats. A painting action is carried out without paint, since the fabrics are dyed and bleached manually until they reach new shades. This procedure is an indirect form of painting that does not use the usual tools of the medium (a brush or brush as an extension of the hand of the artist), as it avoids the exercise of the pictorial gesture and action painting. In this way, abstract compositions become body when they are covered. This re-painting remakes the rest space (the mattress) to transform it into a pictorial language based on all that vocabulary that was already there decades ago: striped patterns of different thicknesses, tones and directions, as well as the patches made on the fabrics.