15/07/2018 Lívia Fernandes
Karin Baptistucci, known in the artistic field as Karin Folie, tell us a little about her trajectory. The artist says that since her childhood she had contact with art, even when she worked in other areas, she enjoyed being involved in parallel with artistic or craft activities. After a workshop in 2014, Karin realized that she was able to draw like everyone else, and two years later she totally devoted herself to her artistic career. In her words:
“Art is something that flows naturally to me. I came to understand this as a gift from the universe, and I asked myself at one point: why not make it a profession? Such a profession which can be done anywhere in the world, giving me freedom. “
The artist denounces her personal involvement with nature by depicting some elements in her works. Leaves, flowers and animals are recurring themes, always represented with color and richness in details. Watching Karin’s artwork, we are surprised by the beauty of the details: it is possible to transform them into unique paintings! Each point of her work can be observed as part of the whole or complete in itself, making us have different perceptions of the same work with each new observation.
Below is Karin’s statement about her artistic work:
“Born in the capital, living in the outskirts and passionate about the beach and life, I am inspired by the colors and elements of Brazilian’s flora and fauna present in my daily life. Mother of two, apart from the cats, I have the privilege of enjoying my atelier in my house overlooking a leafy flamboyant and being close to my family.
Art has always been part of my life. As a child, I spent holidays and weekends at my uncle or grandmother’s house, strolling through art, music, crafts and especially sewing. This was creating in me the taste and the special way of looking to the color, its mixtures and compositions, and to the aesthetic. For twenty years, despite being professionally active in another area, I kept in parallel some artistic or craft activity, from crochet to jewelry, from photography to patchwork, and in 2014 I decided to give more importance and direction to my artistic side, when I discovered after a workshop that I’m able to draw like any other person. In this way I absorbed a little knowledge from a lot of techniques such as watercolor, stamping, line drawing and illustration. In 2016 I decided to make art my profession instead of keeping myself in the same market and it was in the intuitive painting where everything I had seen before joined, and in it I found the best way to express all my taste for colors, for their magical mixtures, for the soft, strong, present, inconstant and surprising way of human expression.
I use simple materials such as charcoal, graphite, acrylic paint with life of its own, and spray on canvas or paper. I look at the material I have in the studio, I put a song, which can vary from tango to heavy metal, I water some little plants, light an incense, separate my favorite brushes, look at the screen, the screen looks at me and then the game begins. The screen is taking shape, obviously not the one I had imagined at the beginning, and with the passing of the hours, or days depending on the size of the screen (I love the big ones !!!) it keeps being changing. I like to believe, or console myself, in the “U” curve theory that preaches that at the top of the U everything looks beautiful and clear. As the artwork develops, it becomes confusing until it reaches the lower part of the curve, where the artist thinks the work is horrible. The theory insists that continuing work at this critical point is crucial to achieve a good and unique result. And it is believing in this process that the screen keeps changing and the layers starts appearing one by one, color by color, piece by piece, like a patchwork quilt giving way to the imagination, be mine or of those who observe the paintings, to discover and to invent forms of subtly and lightly access our essence.
The incredible surprise with each new reading of Karin Folie’s works makes us feel more and more instigated and curious to unveil the elements exposed in such a delicate, colorful and sensitive way. And you reader, what detail of Karin’s work would you turn into a single frame?
Check out more about the Karin Folie’s work in our instagram @vhmor.
Translation: Bárbara Gual
