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Since 1999 to 2006 (ongoing), I have created a collection of works I have recently decided to name "Contemporary Madonnas". The notion of the "Contemporary Madonna" (nothing to do with the ilustrious pop queen), is one that has inspired me constantly. I have never coherently put the whole body of this work together on show anywhere, although parts of it has been shown as part of a show in various different venues.
Recently, an employee from the Saatchi .. gallery approached me regarding my work on the portoflios.com website, and invited me to upload some of my work onto their artists section. It was nice to be appproached by someone personally and told that my work was very strong.
I have given it some consideration, and decided to display the "Contemporary Madonnas" collection in its entirety on the Saatchi page, as soon as I can get pictures of it all (some of it has been loaned to private collections). I will be putting my entire "Contemporary Madonnas" collection on the Saatchi website, which I will put up on here as soon as it is ready to view.
The latest work of this collection was finished yesterday (2nd July 2006). It was inspired by the photo of me on this profile, where I am sitting on my bed. It is abstracted and not a direct copy, and you may or may not recognise it - because the photo was used as inspiration for the composition of the multi-media painting, rather than as a direct reference.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My name is Maria Tidball-Binz, and I believe art is about connecting with people.
I used this myspace to communicate with other people what I love about art. I really love the arts and crafts culture of Latin America, which is where I was born.
I love the sensation of making things with your hands that represent a thousand years of cultural tradition. I love feeling like that object I've just made connects me to my ancestors, way back in time, because they were also making the same things, and they passed them down to me. I love the colours, the tools and the materials.
I also enjoy painting because it frees me to express those feelings within a realm that is internationally recognised as art (rather than craft). The colours, the texture of the paint and the canvas, transmit emotions and messages in a universally understood language. I love the way it can make people feel, like they understand other people, like they understand the artist. I think art for me is about being understood, and communicating my experience of life to others in a way that is easy for everyone to grasp.
Daniel Death [agent] writes about my artwork
I sparked up a Marlboro Red and Mickey, in the quietude of the intermission, asked what I was thinking. Well, my lad, I told him, I was just musing on the artworks of the Argentine artist Tidball-Binz. Mickey took a gasper from my packet and lit-up. Take for example the Turner prize exhibit shedboatshed by Simon Starling, a building which once stood on the banks of the Rhine before the artist dismantled it, built a boat a traditional boat from the wood, and used the vessel to transport the rest of the shed down river, where the whole thing was put back together again for an exhibition.
Theres no doubt that old weathered objects like this, transferred to the gallery have there appeal, but in the end the various reasons why the artist choose his course of action, the back story if you will, are often more interesting than the object themselves. With Tidball-Binz that the emotional back story is intrinsically inherent in the art.
Her figurative abstractions are abstractions or simplifications of reality, where detail is eliminated from recognisable objects leaving only the essence or some degree of recognisable form. with some of her work the viewer must ask; Am I trying to figure out what it looks like or represents rather than allowing something to emerge from what I see in front of me? her works appear self contained units of emotional ideology, hers a voice which speaks on several different registers simultaneously.
The self-containment of ideas is not, initially apparent, which occurs often in Latin American culture. Take Capoeira, the gymnastic Latino dance form, which is in fact a 400 year old martial art developed by slaves. Take Brazil which is officially a Catholic country, but in practice the country's religious life incorporates Indian animism, African cults, Afro-Catholic syncretism and Kardecism, a spiritualist religion embracing Eastern mysticism. All of this is contained within the forms themselves, but not obviously apparent to the novice eye, just as the ideas and ideologies of Tidball-Binz are all there but with some just below the blatant surface.
At the bar post-gig refreshements were being provided by White Ali, who because it was still Ramadan, handed everyone an empty plate. So thats what you were thinking then, sniffed Mickey in a short avuncular manner. yes, indeed, I replied. So you werent thinking about getting some whiskey chasers in, then? I crushed my cigarette out in the ashtray, Well no. Yes. Both. Shuddup Mickey!