Arbre-Nafre
- 2002
- Charcoal and pastel on Guarro paper
- 100 x 70 cm
- Cat. D_308
- Acquired in 2004
The Banco de España has a set of works by Patricia Dauder in charcoal, gouache and pastel on paper, which the artist organises in series of works defined by the deconstruction and decomposition of the forms: ‘Deconstruction taken as a concept and as a method or process to understand a problem by destroying it’.
Drawing, deemed to be an ‘everyday activity’ has been a pivotal element in Patricia Dauder’s work from her earliest projects. Thus, throughout her career, she has explored physical spaces referring to abstract cartographies and imaginary territories by means of drawings and graphics: ‘None of the images depicted are related to a specific model in reality,’ explains the artist. This lack of recognisable models, of defined places and times, led the critic Ricardo Nicolau to establish parallels between her work and the literary techniques assayed by Raymond Roussel and the ‘works of pure imagination’ he created without any interruption from the real.
A later series of drawings include Views, Visions and Overlapping, produced from 2017 onwards. In these, Dauder insists on the accumulation and re-writing in her compositions. The drawings are constructed on walls or on tables laid on the floor where the artist juxtaposes different images and creates an ever more complex alphabet. In 2010, Dauder embarked on her Subway Series in an attempt to eradicate “certain drawing dynamics and to process what came to mind in a more automatic and less reflective way”. She repetitively and mechanically worked on the project during her underground journeys and the result again has echoes of literary methodologies, such as the experiments by Jacques Jouet and his poems written between stations.
Other works by Patricia Dauder