Luciana Espinar Protto

Luciana has studied Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting at the Faculty of Art of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and completed her studies at the Central Saint Martins (University of Arts) in London. Within her specialty she constantly investigated how to reproduce the interpretation of different sensations, emotions and moments. Additionally, as part of her process, she tends to explore other materials, such as ceramics and stone, through sculpture.

“Experiences, emotions and permanent research are an essential part of my process as an artist. Painting allows me to go back to other spaces, capture the experiences, thoughts, observed and learned. In this way, art arises, due to the need that human beings have to express what is not rational in ourselves.”
 
Her tendency towards abstraction is based on the concern of wanting to generate interpretations of realities other than the strictly natural, to reproduce consciousness itself. In many cases, goes with the idea of a metaphor representing various sensations through a new lyrical language; proposes a new reality based on its own sensory language. Her work has strokes and multiple layers of glazes that allude to memory and time in constant movement. For the a...

Universidad Catolica del Peru - Bachelor
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