I photograph Aurora at her apartment in Plaça del Pi, a cozy space with walls full of paintings and drawings that are little jewels. Among others there are works by her mother Aurora Altisent, and Carme Balmas, her grandmother. A whole family of artists.
Aurora is kind and delicate. She does not like to define herself as an artist, she prefers the term visualist, but I think that the compositions and animations she makes with the computer are true works of art.
She explains to me that she had to give up music because of a hearing problem, and that she couldn't find anything that could replace such a powerful and complete art. With the forms and movements she creates on the screen, she has managed to invent a world that, although not as universal as music, has enough entity to attract and move.
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Born in Barcelona in 1962, cellist and member of several chamber ensembles until 1990, Aurora Gasull started in the visual field with photography, drawing and painting. Attracted by the development of the digital environment, she studied a Master's degree in musical creation and sound technology (UPF) and finally specialized with a Master's degree in computer animation and image synthesis (UIB).
After a few years of active profession, he begins the exploration of the abstract image.
In 2018 she participates in the experimental film program developed by the Fundación Juan March (L’abstracció en moviment, 1921-2012 ), which accompanies the exhibition of Hans Hinterreiter at the headquarters in Palma and at the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca.
In 2019, she is be the protagonist of the 2nd edition of Pantalla Interior at the Hall of the CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona).
Cartes des del bosc is presented at the Festival de video d'auteur FLUJO at the Centro Artes Santa Mònica.
In 2021 monographic screening of films at the Convent of San Agustín and shared screening with Joma presented by the Flujo Club at the Antic Teatre.
"I believe that the visual that progresses is an extension of painting and that music can act as a teacher on the path of abstraction in time. Digital tools allow for the exploration of visual language as never before, despite the extreme frustration they represent today when compared to the experience of playing an instrument. Animation is an experience in a very slow tempo: days and weeks of dedication pass from start to finish.
In recent years I have begun to work with live tools that offer a new spontaneity, and to replace the screen as a support for projection on white ceramic, paper and stone, materials that reveal the display of the colors of light in a sensitive experience. Perhaps I will be able to hesitate and be wrong again live."