Artist Spotlight - Roberta Ceudek — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Roberta CeudeK born in Neaples in 1970.. When she was only 3 y.o. her parents went from the chaotic, colorfull, warm "city where never rain" on the Mediterranean Sea, to the misty, cold northern Italy Milan suburbs. She grew up in a regulary life, attending schools and university, and after working in the Media Relations field, but the sun and the sea spaces and images never escaped from her.

THE FOREST, 2017, Oil on canvas, 70x120 cm

She always re-found them when she went to her grandma's house in Neaples, each summer...
She started painting late, when she was 47 y.o., with no artistic background.
Actually, she has a daughter, Viola, attending university in Milan.
And life goes on.. reserving new, amazing surprises, every day...

SNOWMELT, 2018,Oil, acrylic and varnish on canvas, 80x100 cm

Artist Statement

RKRobertaceudeK born in 2017, making istinctual Abstract art inspired by Expressionism and Action Painting, and she is actually developing her artistic research including Conceptual art.
In her artworks RK focuses on primary lightfull colors and mixes different textures, materials and details taken from real life and from Nature to express emotions in a “Six senses vision” of the world around.

DESERT CATHEDRALS, 2018, Oil, acrylic and varnish on canvas, 50x70 cm

A deep immersion in Reality, that she overcomes composing oniric, dreamlike paintings on canvas and “Photopaintings” (varnish painted details on printed digital photos).
About her PHOTOPAINTINGS Collections “COLORS” and “Storie di Acqua e di Luce” (Water and Light tales), the italian art critic Paolo LEVI says:

The inattentive heart, 2018, Mixed media on canvas, 90x100 cm

“The artist RK RobertaceudeK represents a complex inner journey through light and shadow, transparencies or mirrors, illusory allusions. Gentle atonal magmatic traces - perhaps arcane symbols, not premeditated, of pure intuition - fall on a vague and indefinite photographic panorama, revealing itself definitively to the observer in a complex and composite digital reworking.

Look me in the eyes!, 2018, Mixed media with plastic details and eye-lens on canvas, 80x120 cm

In this context, the technique of photopainting is the expressive medium that allows the author to explore her own unconscious, and to give immanence to the unspeakable. Her artworks are highly poetic imaginative messages, uninhabited territory, of a post-apocalyptic melancholy,

Mediterranean sinset, 2019, Mixed media and plastic on backside canvas, 90x100 cm

changing in the light of seasons, sunrises, or impossible sunsets, and in perpetual movement; but perhaps, after the apocalypse, the Final Sentence will announce a new season of innocence. Samuel Beckett, of these admirable sets would say: Nothing is more real than Naught.”

A springtime fairytale, 2020, Mixed media and a real bee nest on canvas, 80x120 cm

RKRobertaceudeK go on searching and exploring... She actually elaborates conceptual frames, to express not only instinctive, abstract perceptions, but rational IDEAS: her visions of people, society and contemporary lifestyle. Artworks always composed by her colorfull, lightfull and imaginative way of making art.

https://www.rkrobertaceudek.com/
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