Patricia Di Loreto: looking at the past with eyes of the present/Patricia Di Loreto: olhar o passado com olhos do presente

Patricia Di Loreto is an Argentinian artist, with a great connection with Santa Catarina Island, Brazil, where she found a very special colored environment, which she adopted in her work. She studied drawing and painting in Peru and Spain, and at the National Fine Arts School Prilidiano Pueyrredon, in Argentina. She performed a rigorous academic graduation, combining oil on canvas and engraving with subtle collages that amplify the paintings up to transforming them in an assembling work, very rich pictorially, reflecting the past in the present. Keywords: Patricia Di Loreto / daily life /past in the present. Patricia Di Loreto e artista argentina com grande ligacao com a Ilha de Santa Catarina, Brasil, onde encontrou um colorido muito especial, que adotou em sua obra. Estudou desenho e pintura no Peru e na Espanha e na Escola Nacional de Belas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon, na Argentina. Realizou uma rigorosa formacao academica, combinando o oleo e gravura com sutis colagens que ampliam as pinturas ao ponto de transforma-las em um trabalho de montagem e riqueza pictorica, refletindo passado no presente. Palavras chave: Patricia Di Loreto/cotidiano /passado no presente.