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| Graciela Bello |
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Graciela Bello is an argentine contemporary artist.She has painted ever since she was a little girl.
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| About the Artist |
Painting is the way I express myself, the way I communicate my personal view of both the world and life.
It is not a hobby: it is something essential, visceral, which Rilke –the poet- called "a need."
Furthermore, it is a way to defeat time and death, a way to perpetuate my dreams.
Since 2000, I have begun to go through a different phase in both my life and my work.
I began to leave behind the thorough description of the past and of a neat world, opening up to fantasy and imagination.
During this stage I have been working in two collections: "Memories or Dreams” and "The Equilibrists”. First of all, these collections depict a search. I plunge into new textures and colors.
I try to express a greater freedom and certain image ambiguity. I experience the pleasure of fun and magic. I gave life to jokers that escape from their cards looking for fun.
I let them play their pranks. Moreover, though still longing for the past, circus characters, equilibrists, masked characters, and harlequins look for a night full of fantasy even though their lives are hanging by a thread.
It is a poetic stage which leads me to the land of magic and dreams, where real and unreal things become blurred…
I feel that I still have a lot to say and other languages to experience. My game must go on.
I envy those old elves with long lives like Picasso or Miró who created over so many years everything they wanted and imagined. What a wonderful freedom! They experienced even the pleasure of rolling over the canvass impregnated with color! If only I could do so!!!! I hope I will have the strength to dare at least a little bit…
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Argentine in transition
2006 acrylic on canvas 70cmX60cm |
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Over the bridge
2001 acrylic on canvas 80cmX60cm |
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Rayuela
2006 Acrylic on canvas 100 cm X 80 cm |
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An old game of lines which consists in jumping from "earth" to "heaven". I
think it´s a metaphor of our
own lives. |
Playing in abstract zone
2007 acrylic on canvas 100cm X 80cm |
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A bussiness man, playing alone
with a ball in an abstact zone, our actual world. |
Happy man in a gray city
2007 acrylic on canvas 70cm X 60cm |
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A little and happy man,
walking across the sky as an
equilibrist, over any of our gray big cities. |
The stairway
2007 miked media 70cm X 60cm |
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A desperate bussiness man, climbing up "the Stairs ",
hurrying to the top , looking for success. |
Nights of fun
2000 acrylic and collage on canvas 80cm X 60 cm |
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Jokers amusements V
2005 acrylic on canvas 70cm X 50 cm |
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Rainbow man
2007 acrylic on canvas 30cm X 30 cm |
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The noctambulant
2008 acrylc on canvas 30cm x 30 cm |
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Visit to hell
2008 mixed media 100cm x 80cm |
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Blue night
2008 mixed media 70cm X 60cm |
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Moon eclipse
2008 acrylic on canvas 50 cm X 120 cm |
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Happy man in abstract world
2008 mixed media 50cm x 120 cm |
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A dreamer in abstract world
2008 mixed media 50cm x 120 cm |
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| Education and biography |
While she was studying Literature (her second passion) at the University, she took courses in History of Art, Aesthetics, Philosophy, and she attended different art workshops: Photography, Airbrushing, Live models, etc.
Then, she worked with textile designs and stamps and for some years she painted exclusive clothes, furniture and objects.
She organized art workshops for children and adults.
In 1990 she decided to exhibit her work.
Since 1992 she took part in 180 solo and group exhibitions in Argentina and abroad:
- Olivos Official Residence of the President of Argentina.(1997)
- Nation Senate-House(1995-1996-1997)
- Museums, Cultural Centers, Universities, Art Galleries and Art Fairs, in the Capital City and inside the country.
Her works were selected in National juried exhibitions, where she has been awarded several prizes and mentions awards.
Abroad she has exhibited in:
• Sala “José G. Artigas” Punta del Este, Uruguay (1996)
• Espaço Cultural do Banespa – Centro Vidal Artes – Curitiba, Brazil (1996)
• “Comune di Campagna Lupia” Venecia and “Villa Breda”- Padova, Italy (1997)
• Latin American Art Museum – Miami, USA (1997/98/99)
• Euroamerica Galleries – Chelsea, New York, USA (1998)
• Galerie Pro Arte Kasper – Morges, Switzerland (1999)
• Colegio Mayor Argentino – Madrid, Spain (1999)
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo – Cusco, Peru (2000)
• Children´s Museum – Oak Ridge – Tennesse, USA (2000)
• Comune di Castelvetro – Modena, Italy (2002)
• Museo de las Casas Reales – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2004)
-Art Ireland-Dublin (2007-2008)
Her works are shown in museums, institutions, private and public schools, historic buildings, and are also part of private collections both in Argentina and abroad.
Her paintings illustrate the postcards of many charitable institutions, some of them were covers of novels and poetry books.
Graciela Bello´s art is also included in several art books, actual magazines and art websites.
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