Vera de Rivales
Artist comment
Art is the transfiguration of the banal. Is a philosophy, a may of expressing the lightest, clearest, most elevated aspects of the spirits. Art must awaken plesant sensations in the viewer. One can identify beauty by the pleasure it provides, whereas ugliness is identified with pain. I have explored color, light, space and above all, transparency. Adapting historic Flemish technique, I developed my own way to create optical effects on rhythm in space. The colors give fullness to the forms: a spirit and a resonance which generate energy. The forms suggest a vision of an unknown world-virtual, capturing a moment of a voyage outside of time.
My work has evolved through several stages:
-Oil on canvas. The forms appear translucent and three-dimensional.
-Painted sculpture in relief on canvas. I extended the apparently 3D painted forms into real 3D.
-Transparent painted sculpture. Is the real 3D.
-Installation of oil on paper.
-Installation of painted transparent sculptures.
Profile
Born in Paris of Russian and Venezuelan descent, Vera de Rivales studied in the Paris Art School with masters from Paris's Beaux-Arts School, Mr Quincy and Mr Lancelin.
History of Art in Louvre's school.
1976-1996
She has been living and working in Paris and Caracas.
1996-2003
She has been living and working in United States.
2003
She is living and working in Paris and in her new studio in Douy in the south of Paris.
1988-1989
She received the prestigious Villa Medici fellowship out side of Rome with anextension, and spent 6 months in New-York to pursue hresearch and creat painted and transparent sculptures in the Arman's studio.
1992
Mr Yoshii a Japan art merchant invited Vera to paint in one of his studios in Kiyoharu
(replica of the Ruche in Paris) and then she started to exhibit in Tokyo.
1995
She exhibited in the Las Americas Museum in San Juan.with auspices from Caracas's Cultural National Councel CONAC-Visual Art Section.
2005
She exhibited in the international Fair in Shanghai and Canton in China.
2007
By the Shanghai sculptures space to show her wall murals and sculptures
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