In Un Astro Oscuro ("A Dark Star)", the artist turns her gaze inward to inaugurate the exorbitant process of expressing beauty. An experience of beauty that has more to do with the inner world than the outside.
Agnes Martin said that the artist must listen to his own mind because he is telling it what to do. Karina, in her creative act, gives primacy to the emotional; to the expression of emotion, which has been transformed from impression to idea by her consciousness. Emotion is not described, but exists as soon as it is expressed -and, in her case, beauty, positive, which as Kant said, is "free of concepts and meanings". The artist's act is an inquiry into the darkness to form clarity, or, if you prefer, a discovery from within the non-visible. Her plastic language is the result of the process of awareness or expression of emotion, similar to the game that, as Gadamer said, gives rise to an open work, with spaces that the audience, in their experience, can provisionally occupy. Collingwood, quoting Coleridge, said that the artist "expresses his emotions by the fact that he gives us the opportunity to express ours".
A Dark Star is a set of abstract paintings of intimate scale, apparently disconnected from any reference to the physical world, mostly with geometrical forms, which reflect the widening and extension of the artist's inner world. Seeing much in nothing, resistance that the artist exercises in relation to the contemporary propensity to see nothing in excess.
Karina Beltrán (Tenerife, 1968) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of La Laguna in 1991. From 1998 to 2010 she lived in London, where she did postgraduate studies. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design and a Postgraduate Diploma in Photography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her solo exhibitions include: "Tiempo Propio", Galería Estampa, Madrid, 2019. "Femme-maison", Saro León Gallery, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2017 and "Escenarios, constelaciones, polaroids", Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2012. He has participated in group exhibitions in the Canary Islands and in cities such as Madrid, London, Porto, Berlin and Beirut. In contemporary art fairs: JUST MAD ART FAIR, Madrid 2019. ART CONTEXT NEW YORK, 2016. ZONA MACO, Mexico City, 2015 and several editions of ARCO, Madrid. Also in the 1st Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands or the 7th Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar. His work is part of the permanent collections of TEA, Tenerife Space of the Arts, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Center of Photography Island of Tenerife, Government of the Canary Islands and numerous national and international private collections
