"The strength of her drawings is emphasized, in part, by the absence of details - an image without rethoric, offering the spectator only a clue."
ARMINDO TREVISAN, art critic and poet, about "Techno-Mythological Angels", 1979

A haunting quality of melodic remebrance, enhanced by brilliant South American sunlight and underscored by a feminine perspective on family life, distinguishes the acrylic paintings of Clara Pechansky.

Pechansky, who lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with her husband, a psychoanalist, is an artist with a solid historical sense and a sound technical background. Her imagery stresses the psychic linkages of domesticity while satirizing the political stresses that have wracked Brazil. These tensions between natural harmonies and artificial dissonances, genuine feelings and strutting, superficial politicians give the work an air of folksiness and good humor. But underneath the wit and visual style lie seriousness and empathy, sensitively intermixed. Pechansky's people are all eyes and no mouth. They gather, with seeming passivity, to share the experience of listening to music. But they also are individualized, within the common bond of their relationships. For them, inner space and the out-of-doors are one.
Into the cloistered aerie of family life come the uniformed Men in Horseback who would once again restore order and clamp a heavy foot on the neck of creativity and individuality. The sound of their boots on the polished floor cruelly mocks her "Sunday Concertos".  Still, the continuum of melody and love are unconquerable -- just as true democracy finally returned to Brazil in 1985, after 22 years of military rule. And Pechansky, who is descended from Ukrainian Jewish stock, appears to take all these political tribulations in stride. 

In order to achieve her effects, the artist incorporates bits of fabric into her paintings. She prefers the terms "combined technique" to "mixed media". Using egg albumen as glue, she integrates art and craftsmanship, acrylic and fiber into highly tactile visual artifacts.  Beauty and harmony are among her major goals, but truth is here, too, sprinkled liberally over a framework of understated loveliness. It makes for refreshing viewing.

In Porto Alegre, Clara Pechansky's works are on view at the most important art galleries. 
In Europe: Caco Zanchi Art Gallery (Aalst, Belgium)- 
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