Tourner the page
Ana Pérez Ventura (Santiago de Compostela, 1981), visual artist and pianist. Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo, with a Higher Degree in Music from the Conservatory of Vigo, a Master's Degree in Music and Plastic Arts from the Sorbonne University in Paris, and currently a piano teacher at the Grand Paris Sud Conservatory, presents her second exhibition at the METRO Gallery in Santiago de Compostela.
In this exhibition we can see previously unpublished pieces from two series that he has been working on for years, in which he uses two opposing processes: on the one hand, the addition of paint in the multiple layers of the Études, and, on the other, the subtraction based on the perforations of the wood in the Notages. If in the Études the evolution has been towards a chromatic expansion, in his latest Notages there has been a reduction of elements with respect to the previous ones, going from perforations on wallpaper glued to the wood to working directly on the bare wood, from the silence and emptiness created by the cavities.
This exhibition also includes his first volume in this series, Tourner la page. This work is inspired by the sheet music "accordions" that pianists build to place all the sheets spread out on the music stand and thus avoid having to turn them while playing. Also included in the series are eighteen pieces created from Carl Czerny's first piano study notebook Op.299 that recreate the melodic drawing of said score by perforating the place occupied by the different notes on the staff.