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Tiger River Delta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

By Lula Cicala

Born in Campana, Buenos Aires, 1989. She has a Bachelor degree in Arts and Communication Design, and Bachelor in Visual Arts.

"My interest is to create calm and timeless spaces, and that is exactly what this place inspires me ..."

"I started going to Tiger when I began studying art at a venue that was close to the channel of San Fernando and then I moved to the delta ...

I worked with wetlands on several disciplines such as engraving, painting and enamelled metal, among others...

I like the sound of the grassland, the Southeast wind, when everything is flooded and trees reflected in the water like a mirror, and then when everything goes down, you can hear the water coming down the hills...

“In the Delta” acrylic on canvas (200x160cm)

Redfish singing at dusk and dawn, the diversity of plants and flowers, various perfumes, listening how wisteria seeds open all in the same night and the next day wake up and see them so violets and bright ...

And at night ... listening to the frogs and crickets, the view of the grassland and the water under a full moon, insects! During hot days there are many mosquitoes and gnats ...”

”In the wetland” acrilic on canvas (30x20cm)

"The feeling of going in the canoe on the water, paddling at night on the river and to see how the mist goes up in winter, and in summer you can see fireflies ..."

“En mi canoa” acrilic on canvas (30x50cm)

As to the technique, these are all acrylic paintings on fabric.

In the painting on the left you can see the biguá, a bird with black plumage typical of the delta, which is seen sometimes in groups and flying water flush

“El biguá” acrilic on canvas (30x50cm)

The prints are made using a technique called etching, which is performed based on an iron plate, which is waterproofed with a thin layer of acid resistant asphalt paint.

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“ Reflexions– Leaves texture I “ etching (35x9cm)

When dry, is drawn with a very sharp tip to remove asphalt paint and leaving room for the acid to get insdide the drawings. The plate is immersed in acid and water and left standing there for a while. The time the film is immerised in the acid, determines the depth of the line recording. Then all tracks are impregnated with a special ink, and the excess is removed.

Then, a heavyweight (300 g approx.) wet paper is passed through a press, the paper enters the grooves and the ink is impregnated, resulting in a mirror image to that found in the matrix

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“Dock” etching (13x5cm)

There is an older and not very common technique with enameled metals, which belongs to the arts of fire ... like pottery and glass fusing, and refers to the application of a glaze made of materials that glazes on metal bodies. In this oppportunity I chose to work with copper.

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“Cucharero Bowl” sgraffito (30cm diametre)

Once it is enamelled, it is introduced into an oven, at 800 degrees celcius. As you can see, there are different techniques wwith different degrees of complexity, and I combined some of them.

For more informacion on Lula’s work, please visit:

delhumedal.

lucicala.

naturalezafluo.

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