Renante Toca

In my work I have used as a source of inspiration my nomadic domestic history and experience, memories of constant changing household within a city or through travel. As a source of visual reference, I use maps, photographs, postcards and other visual documentation about cities or landscapes, including aerial views. I translate these in an eclectic rage of pictorial approaches, which often develop into figurative and abstracted pictorial structures.

In my paintings, there is a kind of mapping taking place within the pieces. I emphasis the notion of “Displacement” and “Difference” in a deliberate way by means of fragmented “parts” and “whole” as a metaphor for that which is made internally in different parts.

I am very interested in making pictures from a variety of jigsaw pieces, belonging to separate puzzles, juxtaposing and embedding them simultaneously to subvert the final reading, exploring the idea of neighboring factions and their relationships.

1998 – 1999 Artist in Residence
Kensington and Chelsea College, London

1995 – 1998 BA (hons) Fine Art, Painting, 
Chelsea College of Art, London

1994 – 1995 BTEC Diploma in Fine Art

Kensington and Chelsea College, London

1993 – 1994 Foundation Studies, Fine Art

Central Saint Martins College of Art, London

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