Samanta Rched Abugauch: the shapes of the soul

In her artwork, Samanta Rched Abugauch proposes a reinvention of figurative art, adapting classical forms to contemporary feelings and concepts.

The work of this young Argentine painter purifies the rule of the conventional. On her canvases we witness a reinterpretation of figurative art to confront today's reality. Her pictorial proposal consists of an exhibition of human psychology through its most primitive side. To do so, she builds metaphors that connect man's states of mind with the animal world.

In this way, Samanta Rched Abugauch takes on a constant, deep reflection on the human condition, its relationship with its surroundings, with art and with the meaning of life. She looks in particular into emotions that go with the human being, such as loneliness, uncertainty or sadness. This reflective slant gives her creations a strong philosophical connotation, which the painter decides to heighten by recreating a fantastical setting with an apocalyptic tone.

She gives shape to this immensely creative bet by generating suggestive dualities. She mixes reality and fantasy, the classical and the contemporary, the rational and the instinctive, the tangible and the dreamed. Interpreting that invented matter through the drama and the pleasurable excess of the baroque. In this sense, her pieces are rich in detail, in colour and in precision. On some of her canvases you can also see the direct influence of fellow Argentine artist Roberto Aizenberg and his deep inspiration in architecture.

In her compositions, then, Samanta Rched Abugauch creates genuine sensory experiences for the viewer, who is easily wrapped in a startling, pulsing atmosphere. And, in the same way, immersed in a pictorial universe where art once again represents the mood and the unease of the time it lives in.

See the artworks of Samanta Rched Abugauch here.