Andrea Clar was born Andrea G. Liberfarb Clar on 13th January, 1973, daughter of a family which was made up of a mixture of Jews and Christians, artists and lawyers, revolutionaries and politicians, in the preoccupied Argentina of í76.
From a very young age, she showed a wonderful acuteness for transforming quite profound sensations into images.
Indeed, Liberfarb, which is her paternal surname, has in its translation what could be said to be the motto of her life: ëBeloved Colorsí
Andrea has a restless, observant character and is obsessive about the details in what she does. Before finishing her studies, she worked in the world of fashion as Creative Director; she became the leader of a music band and exhibited her creations.
In the avant-guard circuit in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires in the 90ís, the artist created her own space, ëComodor, casa de placer electronicoí (ëComodor, electronic pleasure houseí), where both established and up-and-coming DJís played while she exhibited her works projecting them onto the stage, the musicians, the walls and sometimes even onto the audience itself.
The catalyst for her specific interest in painting came about when, following a car accident, she was hospitalized for more than a year with little prospect of ever walking again, or even surviving.
Looking back at that time, she says that when she received a present while hospitalized ñ a box of colored pencils ñ she wore them out as she became obsessed by trying to find those colors ìthat my jaundice had let go, knowing that, if I found them again, I would be able to recover some of the vitality that I lost in that bedî.
As and from that moment ñ touched by some superior being, in her words ñ she was able to start on the road to recovery and to walk, dance and sing again. And, above all, to paint.
The works that she creates examine the different moments of the soul in the depths of color and each period of her painting is marked by that search for chromatic and textural expression.
Her current work, a series on which she has been working for the last 5 years, revolves around the concept which her surname has set out as a strange and intense path: Beloved Colors.
Today, she paints, works on the creation of an interdisciplinary installation, ëSoulMachineí, and is art director in an advertising agency. |
