"LITTLE APOCALYPSE" RUTH QUIRCE

 

A small sacred place from which man can look, his own, strong, unalterable space from which to observe that space full of things he does not understand. The man and his place; meanwhile life is full of small apocalypses.

“…And the individual frees himself by showing what he sees” “Around him there is no free “vital space”, in whose emptiness he can move, quite the contrary. What surrounds you is full. Full and you don't know what. More might not need to know what is full that surrounds you. And if you need it, it's because you feel strange. He doesn't ask either; until the moment when he can ask about his surroundings, he still has a long way to go; because reality overflows him, surpasses him and is not enough for him. It is not reality, it is vision that is lacking”. “But everything testifies that human life has always felt that it was “before something, under something, rather. In principle it was delirium; it means that the man felt watched without seeing. […] And so, the same person who still cannot look at himself, looks at himself from what surrounds him”. Max Scheler, in The place of man in the cosmos, describes the situation of man as that of someone who does not have his own space, a medium, a house.  Mª Zambrano “Man and the divine”.

 

This kind of mountain, pyramid or ziggurat that appears in my paintings is nothing more than the point of view of the observer who looks at everything from his own quiet and sheltered space. A small "saving" space that, like in my other exposure to the sun, looks at everything from a certain distance and solitude. This space is a source of vibrant energy (divinization and clarity), "light as atmosphere, as a declarative medium where reality appears"

 

Ruth Quirce
March 2006

 

Pequeño Apocalipsis is the title under which Ruth Quirce (Madrid, 1974) presents her second solo show at Blanca Soto Arte.

On this occasion his work revolves around the idea of chaos, a "small apocalypse" that evokes those moments of fragility, those small limits, explosions, that unbalance a situation of calm;   in short , small outbreaks of chaos that disturb the apparent tranquility of all things.

 

Ruth starts from her own sensation of a still element, and from her immobile position, she herself is a spectator of everything that happens around her. Everything that surrounds it moves, turns; both the most immediate and the most remote, beyond the limits of the Universe.  In the artist's own words: “I speak from my own space, still, regulated and sheltered. A small “savior” space that, like so1 before, looks at everything from a certain distance”

Little Apocalypse presents paintings where geometry provides stability and disorder at the same time, with planes, lines  and energetic elements, with a robust metallic appearance like that mountain / pyramid / ziggurat that acts as a source of energy , “light as an atmosphere, as a declarative medium where things, reality appear.”