Lara Bandilla lives with her husband and three kids in Berlin.
...the dreamlike pictures include areas of near-photographic realism, but also sections where the image seems to melt — more in the manner of Gerhard Richter’s photo-derived blurs than Salvador Dali’s drippy surrealism...
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
Bandilla breaks down a post-apocalyptic world into layers and snapshots. Following them, maps of cities, rivers, stars, and imaginary spaces unfold - a poetic approach to a non-place. The world Bandilla depicts is made up of elements of language, the surreal, and everyday life that continually dissolve, only to reform in the next step. The artist breaks down her images into different levels to get a different view of the streets and the world....
neues deutschland, Januar
The impression of light and movement is characteristic for the series of paintings, in which the painter confronts the viewer with a "different reality"... The white light makes the street alignments and squares appear otherworldly...the fusion of disparate motifs, the plunging lines, the deliberate blurring, and the dramatic contrasts of light and dark make it difficult to locate them, which is not at all Bandilla's intention. "I want to capture the moment of timelessness," explains the painter, whose paintings are reminiscent of film sequences.
Hannah Styrie, Kölner Rundschau
Art, Painting, Contemporary Art
My paintings are visions from the Real World.
I understand reality as a construct of our perception, behind which lies the Real World. In it the true face shows itself, the real meaning of situations and contexts can be found.
To understand this real significance is very important for me. I permanently ask myself what a situation actually means and find the answers in my paintings: the truth of a moment, with emotion as the absolute measure.The focus is on strong, often personal situations and my own iconography of recurring symbols such as the horses, which stand for life itself, or the sun as a powerful, metaphysical authority.
In the Real World there is no time, man and space are interwoven and mirror each other. Beauty is without measure.
I combine figuration with expressive metaphor. My protagonists move through manifested feeling. I try, through the mixture of materials, structure and differently plastic application of paint to represent the many layers and the liveliness of the Real World, in which graspable finds form, other forces break it up, in which everything is always in motion: a bright, shimmering, wild sea of color and form.
STATEMENT
COMING 2023
SPUREN DES MENSCHEN, group exhibition,Taith Contemporary, Wien
THE REAL FACE, solo exhibition, Gallery Philoart, Wuppertal
SHOW No.4, solo exhibition, WomenPaintersRoom, Berlin, 2022
AESTHETICS OF A DISENCHANTED WORLD, group exhibition, Goerz Höfe, Berlin, 2022
Curated by Lara Bandilla, partecipating artists: Marc Bodie, Monique Schumacher, Angharad Taris, Carys Evans, Wolfgang Sinwel, Julie Davis, David A. Kilvington, Àgnes Zászkaliczky, Shaun Brosnan, Mark Goldsworthy, Kathrin Landa, Ulrike Dornis, Marlies Ziemke, Annette Selle, Mark Thompson, Caroline Corleone, Lothar Düver, Lara Bandilla
MAKE ART NOT WAR, group exhibition, Gallery Philoart, Wuppertal, 2022
ORLANDO, group exhibition, Taith Contemporary, Wien, 2021
ON VIEW, solo exhibition, Gallery Philoart, Wuppertal, 2021
DAS FREMDE IN UNS, group exhibition, Gallery Philoart, Wuppertal, 2020
DER AUGENBLICK, solo exhibition, Taith Contemporary, Wien, 2019
EDEN, solo exhibition, Gallery Philoart, Wuppertal, 2018
ON THE ROAD, solo exhibition, Gallery Steiner, Berlin, 2017
OF TIME AND LIGHT, solo exhibition, IA&A Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, USA, 2013
ARCHAICS, solo exhibition, Kunstverein Hattingen, 2012
STUDIO EXHIBITION, solo exhibition, Studio Schaperstrasse, Berlin, 2011
ZEIT LICHT, solo exhibition, Christuskirche, Cologne, 2011
LICHT SCHWEBE RAUM, group exhibition, Ballhaus im Nordpark, Düsseldorf, 2011
TRACING PENTHESILEA, solo exhibition, Gallery Golkar, Bonn, 2010
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR AMSTERDAM
SHANGHAI ART FAIR
GOOD AMERICA - BAD AMERICA, Museum Walter, Augsburg
KUNSTVEREIN NEUEHRENFELD KÖLN
WELCOME TO PARADISE, Megahertz Records
PHANTASTISCHE KREATUREN, Württembergisches Palais, Regensburg
WASSER, Museumsnacht Regensburg
SALON, Salon DÓrpheé, Regensburg
DIE ZEIT DER HUNDE, Kulturspeicher, Regensburg
PENTHESILEA - DER UNGELENKTE WILLE, Kleist Museum, Frankfurt an der Oder
SOGNANDO DIO, Centro Pellegrini, Rom