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Sonia was born in Salvador, Brazil, in 1961. She grew up in Rio de Janeiro and studied Architecture at the local School of Architecture and Urbanism (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) |
| About the Artist | |
I have always had a weird relationship with art. It is something I can’t really get hold of and yet I cannot live without. Something always in the making. As if I was in search of what is unkown to me. Like trying to find my way out in the dark. |
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To Livia with love
2007 |
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| Memories of places that emerge from the past, morphing themselves into images, combining abstract forms with personal graphic impressions.
Memories of Amsterdam 1993. The Bicycle Hotel, a special place where my daughter Livia was conceived.
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windowpanes
2007 |
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| As a student of architecture, I used to have drawing classes throughout the city of Rio the Janeiro. I loved the old colonial facades and the windowpanes. |
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The couch
2007 |
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| Cities for people or cities for cars?
Some environmentalist friends made a protest in Quebec City by sitting on a couch in the middle of the road and were arrested.
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Digital Graffiti
2007 |
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| A snapshot of the old Carioca Aqueduct, called Lapa Arches, located in the bohemian heart of Rio de Janeiro, today the hippest, most happening place in town.
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Purple Renaissance
2007 |
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| Past. I was twelve years old when I visited Italy. Images of Florence, the Italian Renaissance and the scenographic dome. Future. The cyberspace and the new networks.
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| Education and biography | |
| Sonia began her art studies at the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro. She attended art classes at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage and private art studios and experienced different kinds of media and techniques, from oil painting to jewelry making. After graduating she persued a career as an architect, working with urban issues. From 1989 to 1994 she was the technical director of the Rio de Janeiro based NGO Institute of Technology for the Citizen, focusing on the sustainable urban environment. Between 1994 and 1999 she helped to coordinate The United Nation´s Local Initiatives for the Urban Environment Program in Brazil. At the turn of the century she decided to move on again to start off, along with her husband, a Consulting firm to work with Marketing Intelligence and territory analysis, helping corporations to understand their outside business and to create new scenarios. While working with territory analysis and coordinating a group of geographers and urbanists she developed a growing interest in the connection between maps and art. So she decided it was time to reinvent herself and become fully an artist. She currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. |
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| Website: www.soniagil.com.br | |
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