AURORA ROMERA
A letter for Aurora Romera
« If you live the poem... why write it? »
J. Gil de Biedma
Memory for me is stronger than the reality which usually
presents itself full of anecdotes which dilute the own
essence of things. Memory is therefore, the synthesis which
gives way to the magic.
Upon writing about Aurora, having seen her recent work,
having remembered her varied artistic life in contrast to her
brief professional career, I believe that Aurora has always
created art. Painting is not collateral to her.
I remember her first paintings, tender, vibrant, infused with
life, her reverential posture towards art and her sensibility in
the creation of spaces when decorating her homes: the
distribution of objects, the play of light and the lemon tree
painted on a blue background in the bathroom.
Aurora paints the feeling, not the object, extends her arm
over the canvas and she projects herself. She bestows in
each brushstroke her own life, her brimming vitality, her
tenderness, her pain, like an autobiography.I imagine her
surrounded by experiences, from her world
of fantasy, like Mauricio, G. Garcia Marquez’s character in
« One Hundred Years of Solitude », where upon entering
a place; this is filled by yellow butterflies.
MARINA DIAZ
« Si vives el poema.. para que escribirlo ? »
J. Gil de Biedma
Al escribir sobre Aurora, al ves su obra reciente, al recordar su dilatada vida artistica como contrapunto de su breve trayectoria profesional, pienso que Aurora ha hecho arte desde siempre. La pintura no es algo colateral a ella.
Recuerdo sus primeros cuadros, tiernos, vacilantes, con palpito de vida, su postura reverencial hacia el arte y su sensibilidad en la creacion de espacios al decorar sus casas : la distribucion de los objetos, el juego de la luz y el limonero pintado sobre fondo azul en el cuarto de bano.
Aurora pinta el sentimiento, no el objeto, extiende su brazo sobre el lienzo y se proyecta ella. Va desgranando en cada pincelada su propia vida, su desbordante vitalidad, su ternura, su dolor, como una autobiografia.
La imagino rodeada de vivencias, de su mundo de fantasia, como Mauricio, el personaje de G. Garcia Marquez de « Cien anos de Soledad », que al entrar en una estancia, esta se llena de mariposas amarillas.
MARINA DIAZ
SHE PREFERS HER GARDEN
Aurora lives in the middle of the forest, in the sun and with the sea nearby. The forest shelters her, enwraps her and not only caresses her but raped her as a girl, it penetrates her to every corner, nesting in her core and stays with her. It left her forever flooded with oleander, bougainvillea, ferns, celandine, hibiscus, petunias, azalea, wall lizards and birds.
Aurora looks at the snails which pass among the leaves of the ivy as we painters look, with eyes half closed in the manner of shutters in the sun.
Nevertheless, as if she were in front of a mirror, the forest which she prefers to paint is that which she carries inside.
So when she paints it isn’t what she observes, but that which is born, which gives birth, which invents. Prestigiously she takes from her sleeve tones of faded velvet in the violets or purples of « The Seven Words ».
It seems she prefers her inner garden because it keeps better than those from outside the dampness of the dew, the trembling, the scent of the grass, or that ineffable thing that the hangings of verdant groves have when it comes. Aurora knows a lot about this and she tells it very well.
She is a gazelle with a fine nose and the old wisdom of the southern people. For this, in the apparent sweetness of her paintings there is always a thread of bitterness.
SANTIAGO DEL CAMPO
PREFIERE SU JARDIN
Aurora mira los caracoles que pasean por las hojas de la hiedra como miramos los pintores, con los ojos entornados a modo de persianas al sol.
Sin embargo, igual que si estuviera ante un espejo, la selva que prefiere pintar es la que lleva dentro. Por eso cuando pinta no es que observe sino que pare, que da a luz, que inventa.
Prestidigitadora se saca de la manga tonos de terciopelo gastado para los filodendros o morados de « La Siete Palabras » paratradesquercias.
Parece que prefiere su jardin interior porque conserva mejor que losde fuera la humedad del rocio, el temblor, el olor de la yerba, o esa cosainefable que tienen los tapices de floresta cuando se nos vienen encima. Aurora sabe mucho de esto y lo cuenta muy bien.
Es gacela con el olfato fino y la sabiduria vieja de las gentes del sur. Por eso, en la aparente dulzura de sus cuadros hay siempre un hilo deamargura.
SANTIAGO DEL CAMPO

