"Current Brazilian art is normally economical with the simultaneous use of pictorial resources: it deals with gestures or color, rarely both aspects at the same time. However Newman uses both on a large surface, as if it is a battlefield getting ready for war. His work boldly deals with both aspects at the same time. His modus operandi is also two fold: as he erases his first actions on the canvas leaving just some traces of their presence, other layers of gestures cover them and are marked with the material existence of the plastic surface. curiously this rationale creates the need or impression of a defined drawing. The result forms a collage, a diverse and well-articulated discussion about the painting's nature, marked with the presence of strong colours. One has the feeling of being in the paintings lost and found, rediscovering what was lost and finding what was thought to be gone forever." Carlos A. Fajarado Artist and Dr. Prof. in Fine Arts at Universidade de Sao Paulo		click images to enlarge

			"Sandrini's painting is an avowal of her faith in color. Lyric, tragic and sensitive, the artist by some sort of chemistry of color overcomes the ambiguity between color and line, grasping the frontier envisaged by Cezanne: Color is the place in which our brain and the universe meet. Sandrini works with the flesh of matter. Her stain-traces are defined almost in a single masterstroke. Sandrini with her cruel and powerful strokes, pulling off the essence of color celebrates form. An attempt, perhaps, to re-encounter an early gesture or the dialogue with art that only art itself allows. In the challenges of daily life she celebrates life itself, even though she understands that the only way to do it is by plunging into her unsolvable conflicts. In short, with her every gesture Sandrini reaffirms the esthetic dimension through the intimate expression of a woman's life." Maria Jose Justino Ph.D in Esthetics and Art Science by the University of Paris visit Estela Sandrini's site		click images to enlarge