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Graciela Bello
 
 
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

Argentine in transition

Over the bridge

2001
acrylic on canvas
80cmX60cm

Over the bridge

Rayuela

2006
Acrylic on canvas
100 cm X 80 cm

Rayuela
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

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

Happy man in a gray city
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

The stairway
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

Nights of fun

Jokers amusements V

2005
acrylic on canvas
70cm X 50 cm

Jokers amusements V

Rainbow man

2007
acrylic on canvas
30cm X 30 cm

Rainbow man

The noctambulant

2008
acrylc on canvas
30cm x 30 cm

The noctambulant

Visit to hell

2008
mixed media
100cm x 80cm

Visit to hell

Blue night

2008
mixed media
70cm X 60cm

Blue night

Moon eclipse

2008
acrylic on canvas
50 cm X 120 cm

Moon eclipse

Happy man in abstract world

2008
mixed media
50cm x 120 cm

Happy man in abstract world

A dreamer in abstract world

2008
mixed media
50cm x 120 cm

A dreamer in abstract world
 
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.
 
Website:  www.gracielabello.com.ar
 
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