An article from the 03 Jun 2019 of the Braunschweiger Journal by the journalist Rainer Sliepen, about the opening of the exhibition in Wegwarte, Lucklum.
Photo by Rainer Sliepen
Luisa Aguiar in Wegwarte, Lucklum
"As in the light of the southern sun
Luisa Aguiar exhibits her work in the Wegwarte in Lucklum.
By Rainer Sliepen
Lucklum.
An exhibition is always an important station in the artist's life. So also for Luisa Aguiar. I meet her shortly before the opening in the Wegwarte in Lucklum.
She has already completed some presentations with her own works. But here in the Wegwarte the audience gets a comprehensive overview of her work for the first time.
The petite painter is not nervous, rather tense and a little bit nervous. The artist opens here, has to face the judgment of strangers. She does not learn that easily.
The pictures, photographs and paintings in acrylic technique, point to her moving life. There is her favorite motive, "Beach Colors". The bright colors of her homeland. Light, sun, sand. Captured in blue, ocher, white. Changing, as in the light of the southern sun. Her mother comes from Angola, her father from Portugal. Other stops are Mozambique, Brazil and the Azores. Sunburned landscapes whose essence she draws in her pictures.
Contrasts prove the span of her creativity. Because she has found her home in our region. In Evessen.
Originally she was a photographer. Now she has rediscovered painting for herself. The photos are characterized by a minimalist reduction. The essence is what Luisa calls it.
A huge blue sky spans out. And tiny and consciously isolating nature. A tree. Symbol and center. Our region offers such motives for those who sees them.
Another impression. Gentle curved landscape formations. Earthy basic colors. And again the sky, stretched out, like a huge friendly tent that asks its viewers to enter.
In the meantime, the Wegwarte has filled up. Many friends, visitors from near and far. It's going well for Luisa. Become aware and of course sell these are her wishes. The public has two months to visit the exhibition in the Wegwarte.
Surely her nudes will attract attention. Again, the reduction of the male body to its structures, muscles, tendons, analyzed almost as under the sober look of a pathologist.
But the painter also has a look for playful romance. A staircase with a filigree railing. Glowing colors. The decay as a nice metaphor on the time. A cosmopolitan not only in life, but also in her own works. That she hangs in her homeland, be it the distant Azores or the rolling hills around the Elm, is palpable.
And everything complements itself, such as the home-baked Pastéis de Nata, puff pastry with pudding, from her native Portugal, plus a sip of Prosecco with woodruff. A successful vernissage."
