Exhibitions
Catherine Lorton. The Vitalism of Color
"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes"
Arshile Gorky
"During the day I see in color and think in black and white. At night I see in black and white and think in color"
Fabrizio Caramanga
The latest exhibition by Catherine Lorton that was presented at the Museu de Llavaneres – Can Caralt was entitled Synesthesica. Poesia del color , where it refers to human perception, or what is the same, it is a neurological phenomenon between art and science which, in this specific case, is mainly based on relating color to the world of the senses, such as, for example, music, smell, taste or touch.
Therefore, the use of color that appears in each of her works is essential to better understand the content and symbolism of all of them. In addition, they refer to the various elements from nature in order to try to establish a link, according to her, to highlight 'an intimate landscape of emotions'.
As the creator of the concept of Buttonism , her ideology is based on a very small piece, such as a button, but which, at the same time, is necessary for clothing. For the artist, the button has a special meaning and compares it to the figure of the woman, especially in many cultures of the world, since her role, despite being necessary, does not have the same consideration or rights that men have. Consequently, the figure of the button is as useful as the woman herself. This parallelism between the two, that is, object and person, serves to understand what Catherine Lorton wants to represent, both in her paintings and in her engravings.
In fact, in this exhibition the protagonist is color, unlike previous stages in which it stood out for its monochrome, primarily neutral tones. However, now the color, through amoeboid and rounded shapes that somehow evoke the surrealist Arshile Gorky or the Dadaist Jean Arp, invites the viewer to enter the personal and singular world of the artist, largely due to the presence of the button formulated in various ways.
These abstract elements are arranged randomly across the surface, as if they were dancing or floating through space. A space arranged in unequal rectangles, giving rise to a certain compositional balance.
Overall, Catherine Lorton's work leaves no one indifferent, basically because abstraction has different morphologies of aesthetic representation and the presence of Botonism is one of them, a circumstance that highlights her contribution to this trend.
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