Tita Merello (2011) Painting by Alicia Besada

My impulse to create arises from my deepest depth, from the need to discover and reveal the mysteries of femininity, what it covers and what it conceals, desire and the body.

During much of my career as a painter, I emphasized that the figures I painted felt like women of flesh and blood. The focus was on the skin, the border between the person and what surrounds them, part of what is inside shines through the skin, the battlefield between what is wanted to be hidden and what comes to the surface anyway. and also the surface of the body on which something new is written, something different than expected is presented.

More recently it was emerging a transformation of the corporeal, of the contour and of the matter, to take the edge to the extreme of doubt, making it confusing, permeable, crossed, undone, in a subtle tension between what is contained and what is let go, producing a bordering in another way, with other mixtures and interactions

The fluid was appearing, which unites space and figure , the figure that is emptied in that space, which has something aquatic, amniotic, depth and light.

In my paintings the resistance to filling coexists with the emptiness that is present, and they need each other.

Argentine artist born Buenos Aires in 1966, English and piano teacher. He moves to NY and joins the Art Students League. He then continued his education in art at the University of Singapore and finally at the IUNA. Attend drawing workshops with a live model by Carlos Fels and Ernesto Pesce, painting with Mirta Kupferminc, Diana Dowek, Nicolás Menza and Ariel Mlynarzewicz and sculpture with Lidia Batisti, Leo Vinci and Sara Mansilla.

• Nationality: ARGENTINA
• Date of birth : 1966
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Argentinian Artists