Patricia Dauder

PATRICIA DAUDER (Barcelona, 1973).
"Untitled (Paisaje gris)".2005.
Charcoal on paper.
With label on the back of the gallery Projectes SD.
Measurements: 130 x 100 cm; 150 x 120 cm (frame).

Patricia Dauder often precedes the titles with the premise "Untitled", which is a declaration of intentions: not wanting to limit and direct the emotions that the viewer will feel before (in this case) a "gray landscape" (rain, leaden mood ...) With a suggestive language close to minimalism and lyrical abstraction, Dauder experiments with form and matter as a reflection on the passage of time and the idea of space. Presence and absence, the whole and the fragment, mass and emptiness, residue and trace, are concepts that resonate in her proposals.
Trained in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and with stays in Holland, New York and Prague, she lives and works in Barcelona. She uses different media: drawing, sculpture, textiles, film and photography. In her work, of a markedly processual character, travel plays a prominent role, as well as the culture of the sea and the idea of nature. The artist claims more direct and essential forms of relationship with the natural environment, a claim that is embodied both in her travels and in her chromatic choices, in her physical and artisanal relationship with materials (paper, graphite, cardboard, fabrics, plaster, wood, air, earth). Dauder creates and destroys, traces and erases, adds and eliminates, until he molds refined pieces with an abstract appearance that, in their ambiguity, end up projecting multiple associations and iconographies. Since the late 1990s, his work has been exhibited in venues such as the Museu de l'Empordà in Figueres (2008), Fundació Suñol in Barcelona (2009), Museu de Serralves in Porto (2012), MARCO in Vigo (2015) and National Gallery in Prague (2018). His work can be found in collections such as the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Coleçao Fundaçao Serralves in Oporto, Colección CAM de Arte Contemporáneo in Alicante, Fundació Vila Casas in Barcelona, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela, Chartwell Collection in Auckland, New Zealand and MACBA in Barcelona, among others.