About
Katalina Gutierrez is a Latin American freelance filmmaker, illustrator and photographer currently based in New York. Her work explores the nature of dreams and fantasy. Katalina spent a year in Mexico City studying traditional painting techniques. During that time, she became passionate about surrealist painting and the works of Leonora Carrigton and Remedios Varo.
Katalina creates fantastical landscapes where inanimate and invisible elements become alive. In her series of paintings, The Imaginary Beings, she explores the mythological worlds of Jorge Luis Borges through a compendium of anthropomorphic animals, mirrors, cosmic dragons and a mechanical Tree of Life.
As a filmmaker, Katalina often blends visual elements and sound textures in her media projects. Her digital artwork is informed by classical painting as much as experimental cinema. In 2019, she created an experimental film called Path to the Mirror that blends archival materials, poetry and multimedia.
What is the story behind these pieces?
Most of these works belong to a series called, The Imaginary Beings. Inspired by the power of mythology, they endeavor to reimagine earlier legendary civilizations like Atlantis and Lemuria.
As a New York-based artist, I’m naturally interested in emerging art forms and immersive experiences. As such, I find it exciting that animation and VR are extending the parameters of what fine artists can do by allowing for the fusion of painting, sound design, and kinetic movement into a new kind of concentrated aesthetic experience.
For many nomads and multilingual artists who live outside their countries, online galleries have become a dynamic space to sell art independently, connect with a global market and be informed by new creative currents. I’m constantly searching for highly curated online galleries where artists promote their work.
The new Gallery is the ideal space for my work to be experienced, viewed and shared within a community. Animation and VR pull the viewers to a real or imagined space by adding new layers to the work. They reshape our experience of reality through a virtual experience.
Gallery
Animation works :
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Borges tells us how, “The world of mirrors and the world of men were not, as they are now, cut off from each other.” In the painting Fauna of Mirrors, legions of microcosmic beings enter and exit the portal while the first human that saw both worlds remains awake.
“According to its will, the Dragon can become visible or invisible. In springtime it ascends into the skies; in the fall it dives down into the depths of the seas.”
Jorge Luis Borges