World Earth

The act of painting a canvas
is very simple.
It begins with opening a paint tube, and finishes by washing
the brush.
In the canvas, the artist simply puts his soul.
Patricia secco does this in an even simpler way,
mixing with thousand colours
her beauty, class, culture and an enormous talent.
She says modestly that she gets her
inspiration in the earth (planet?).
I say: - in the earth, water, air and fire.
My dear friend Patricia is like a box of 48 colour pencils,
beautiful to watch and with the magic possibility of redrawing
the creation of the Universe
Transforming all this Eastern / Western into a world
''Latino".
Her art, as if they were embroyed fabric, painted and weaved.
With reference to the geometric figures
that become imaginary, remembrances and memories.
Because she is an ample artist, her painting is not only
from a brazil but from the entire Latin-American continent.
Discrete, she confessed to me
that during her teenage
she used to ride a horse called “petiço”,
in reality it was
a white winged unicorn .... I think that explains
Everything.

Juarez Machado
Paris, 2006
( Brazilian Painter who also dabbled in illustrating, scenography, sculpture, drawing and engraving with a number of  international prizes. Machado lives in Paris and frequently exhibites his works in Europe and the USA. )

Patricia Secco's beautiful color surfaces reminiscent of silky, luscious fabrics where color is never what we think, and their values depend on the direction and quality of light affecting them. These backgrounds capture the eye's attention for the natural ease with which they are organized. Against these pools of color, she sometimes juxtaposes abstract symbols that, at first glance, give us the impression that the painting stops there. But even in those paintings that appear to be abstract, which I understand she has constructed as landscapes, and among all her works are my personal favorites, color is not the only presence inhabiting the painting. Imprecise, sign-like color strokes, like mumbling words lay beneath the layers of material. One's eye wanders through them attempting to decipher their unfamiliarity, as when lost with no other reference in the woods.

Felix Angel,
Whashington DC
(Curator and the general coordinator of the Cultural Center of IDB, in Washington, and the editor for the Latin American art section of the Library of Congress of the USA.)