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Artist Statement:
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.
I love different painting
styles: the Surrealists like
René Magritte (aesthetically
sublime) or Marc Chagall
(sheer poetry).
I am also touched by some
abstract painting. For
instance, Jackson Pollock's
"drip and splash" style moves
me, and in its apparent
secrecy I find an extremely
poetic language for my soul.
I like detail, texture,
materials, ensembles; those
paintings which become poetry.
Since 2000, I have been
working on “The Equilibrists”
series, opening up to fantasy
and imagination. I plunge into
new textures and colors.
I try to express certain image
ambiguity. I experience the
pleasure of fun and magic.
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 ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Since 1992 she took part in
more than 190 solo and group
exhibitions in Argentina:
- 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 ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
-Nation Senate
House(Argentina)
-Manzana de las Luces /
Historic Building (Argentina)
- Austral Naïf Museum –
Patagonia, Arg.
-Latin American Art Museum
(now Museum of the Americas)–
Miami, USA
-Children´s Museum – Oak Ridge
– Tennesse, USA
- Permanent Internacional
Museum of Naif Art – Levizzano
Castle – Castelvetro of
Modena, Italy
- Museo de la...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Graciela Bello:
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“Clearly “experimenting with fun and magic,” G.B.'s works embrace the naïve aesthetics so that she can take the liberty of playing with the pure fairy tale, the world of childhood and dreams, and transfer them to the canvas in a return to innocence.
Mastering a refined technique and firm determination in terms of what she wants to depict, she wraps us with star-shaped wakes in a universe where anything is possible. However, in its apparent naivety, such universe knows how to be carping.
She recreates the land of dreams based on disquieting backgrounds whose darkness is lighted up with beams of light spreading like textures, which add both luminosity and magic, stressing the content of the scene, often conceived from chiaroscuro as a sweet apparition....shaped with the delicate brushstroke of an artist who still has the ability to dream.” (Yolanda Guerrero Otero - Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Artistas Plásticos Contemporáneos [Latin American Encyclopedia of Contemporary Painters] – QCC University of New York - 2004)
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