| Natalia Reparaz |
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Natalia Reparaz was born in Madrid,Spain.
She lives in Miami since 1997 and travels to Madrid and Mexico city.
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| About the Artist |
N.R. became part of the so-called “movida madrileña” thanks to an underground comic tetralogy she drew about some homosexual friends. By then she started drawing with hyperrealist painter Gabriel Pedrero, and later on at the Artaquio bottega.
After a pass at opera singing, she studied Advertising in Spain and then took a degree in Graphics and Advertising Design at Parsons, NY.
She started working as an Art Director in Grey Advertising, N.Y. and soon after in Madrid, where she married an Italian film director.
Natalia Reparaz moved to Miami in 1997, where she had an intense exposure to Latin-American and Contemporary Art. She also rediscovered Pre-Columbian Art through her frequent visits to Mexico. On June 2000 she produced a solo exhibit composed entirely of her friends’ portraits, after which she started accepting commissions. Three years later, she began exploring new forms of expression.
“If I had to define what a work of art is, I would say it is that creature
born from the marriage of an idea and a shape. I would say it is talent and skilled craftsmanship wrung together to express something in an interesting manner. The eye of the artist has that magic quality that can turn the most plain object into something worthy of contemplation.”
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Jurassic sex
2006 oil on canvas 21 cm x 35 cm |
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A woman is having a peculiar relationship in a very unstable situation. |
Erotic cabinet, installation
2008 wood 200cm x 120cm, 4 panels |
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Since antiquity, noblemen and other rich people enjoyed collecting exquisite paintings. Some of them had a smaller room in their private apartments were they hid their most spicy pieces, mostly depictions of naked goddesses from Greek mythology.
From this I got the idea of building my own little room and hanging there my own private collection. I painted my favourite themes and made an erotic series.
The series is composed of 10 small paintings, carefully conceived and exquisitely framed, intended to be shown inside an installation that looks like a bunker art booth.
The cabinet has very narrow windows from which the viewer can peep into the paintings. These are small with the purpose of forcing the viewer to approach them, in contrast to moving back from a large painting. This fosters curiosity and a sense of intimacy.
In this very personal show I am depicting eternal themes in life like beauty, womanhood, motherhood, male-female love, matrimony, abandonment, gay love, breast cancer, and other less eternal like bestiality, and sexual tourism. My treatment of each one is humorous as, since childhood, I’ve been puzzled by the peculiar way people have of making their lives complicated in the name of their perception of love.
In Erotic cabinet I want to represent my personal erotic iconography; all the paintings differ from each other as if I were a collector trying to put together a varied collection of my favourite pieces.
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Homely Venus
2008 oil on canvas 24 cm x 33 cm |
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A normal woman imagines herself to be a Botticelli Venus |
Grand Tetons
2008 oil on canvas 28 cm x 38 cm |
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Warrior woman vanquishing breast cancer |
Cultural merger
2008 oil on canvas 35 cm x 28 cm |
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A playful replay of a Kama Sutra illustration |
Mother Nature
2008 oil on canvas 37 cm x 26 cm |
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Delivery can be a happy and sacred happening |
Utamaro lovers
2008 oil on canvas 23 cm x 30 cm |
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There are other more sexually descriptive Japanese prints, but this one is among my favourites for the complicity among the lovers. |
Stolen heart
2006 oil and gold leaf on canvas 24 cm x 33 cm |
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A mantra for forgiveness |
Apart
2008 oil on canvas 20 cm x 40 cm |
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Situation in a marriage |
Eva and Evo
2007 80" x 32"each, 204 cm x 81cm each |
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Gesso and oil on cotton print.This couple is my own version of Adam and Eve. |
Reversible Evos
2007 80" x 32"each, 204 cm x 81cm each |
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Gesso and oil on cotton print. A reversible view of Eva and Evo. |
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| Education and biography |
N.R. studied Communicational Sciences (Advertising)at Complutense University in Madrid and in 1983-1984 took a degree in Graphics and Advertising Design at Parsons, N. Y.
March 27-39, 2009: Arteamericas Fair, Miami
March 15th, 2008: "Elements of Art", Etra Gallery, Design District, Miami.
November 10th, 2007: "The Power of Intuition" at Bond Studio,Wynwood, Miami
May 26 2007: Open House Studios at 801 Projects, Miami.
January 14th 2006: “Resolutions” collective art exhibit at Artformz Gallery, Design District, Miami.
November 16th 2004: “Emartea” exhibit at Colegio de las Vizcainas, a historic building in Mexico City. A collective art show promoting women in the arts.
November 2003:Coexistence poster show, organized by Jerusalem’s Museum of the Beam in Miami.
June 1st 2000: Solo exhibit, portraits only, at the Santander Gallery on Brickell Avenue, Miami.
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Website: www.nataliareparaz.com |
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