Rosa Salazar studied at the Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes (UNEARTE), in Caracas, where she outlined her preference for landscape. This theme has been the basis of a work in which two axes interlock, the affective and the plastic.

The representation of domestic animals, such as cats, or wild animals, such as birds and horses, attends to an emotional connection, of affections and memories. It is not just any animal that is selected for her repertoire, it is only those that were present in her childhood, spent in eastern Venezuela, close to the vegetation and fauna; and from her father, a horse keeper.

The plastic aspect is based on the representation of the ‘form of movement’. Her figures are interpretations of the capture of the moment, the flapping of the birds, the chromatic decoding that unfolds at that moment, the blurring of the wings, the magic of entering the bird’s tempo from her own universe. When birds fly, they have a very wide range of colors that cannot be seen when they are static. Movement is what allows that possibility. In the case of horses, she performs the sequence in different planes of movement of the body and limbs. And in cats, the stylization of the moving figure conveys their angry state. In all of them you can see the character of the animal, the temperature of the bottom that moves with the light, the density of the air and the agitation of the wind.

In Rosa Salazar’s artwork, the selection of colors comes as a consequence of the development of the form, it is an element that joins the intention of animating dynamism. She even has a line of work in which she only uses black, to focus attention on matter and form.

Mixed techniques with an economy of formal plastic media, adds to this proposal, that stands out for an unusual approach and new ways of seeing the landscape.

Anny Bello