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Artist Statement:
Paintings are windows to other
worlds, other realities.
Painting is a way of dreaming,
watching a painting it's a
manner of travel thru another
being's mind. This is what
mermerizes me about painting,
the power to make people
dream. Also watching the world
thru other's eyes is an
incredible experience.
Painting is my life.
I want to explore it at it's
deepest. At present I am
studying the old techniques of
painting, using pure materials
and preparing them myself.
Combining this with a
contemporary language I am
looking for a new expression
for painting, an art that
seems to be wrestling with
digital images at present
times.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
June 2010 Lisbon, Portugal
Colorida Art Gallery
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
November 2009 Caracas,
Venezuela
Mezerhane Foundation
2008 Miami, USA.
Step by Step Foundation
Group exhibition and auction.
2008 Barcelona,
Spain.
Base Elements Gallery
Group exhibition.
2007 Barcelona,
Spain.
La Fruteria Gallery
Group exhibition.
2006 Barcelona,
Spain.
VII Small Format International
Contemporary Art Exhibition.
2005 Philadelphia, USA
Ashley Gallery
Group exhibition.
April 2005 Bologna, ITALY
Bologna Children´s Book Fair
Selected to exhibit in La Sala
Borsa,
for the special exhibition
“The Emperor´s New
Illustration”.
December 2004 Barcelona, ...
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Claudia Caponi Biography:
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Age
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37
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Music, movies, animal rights... |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Expressionism - (1905 - 1945)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Rembrandt
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Any painting by Paula Modersohn-Becker
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Being able to travel inside a canvas.... inspiration given by the colors, the strokes, the atmosphere of a painting...
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
All art is quite useless.. as Oscar Wilde once said... |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1974.
Both of my parents are italian, I grew-up in Caracas, so I was raised in this kind of duality: between two worlds.
I graduated as an architect from the Central University of Venezuela in 1998, during my five years of study, I took one year off and moved to Providence, R.I. (USA); where I attented the Rhode Island School of Design.
This experience changed my whole life, after being in contact with all the different ways art has to express itself like painting, ceramics, glass work, sculpture; I decided my life had to be dedicated to art.
So I went back to Venezuela, received my diploma, and decided to put it aside in the deepest corner of a drawer.
During this period I worked with sculpture. I started showing my art in different kinds of shows, one of them the “National Exhibition of Unknown Artists” in 1999.
The same year I moved to Turin (Italy), where I participated in an Art Festival for Young Artists, (BIG) in the year 2000. My project was a urban intervention in the Piazza Carlo Felice.
After two years in Turin I moved to Barcelona, where I’ve been living since then.
Here in Barcelona I attended the School of Arts and Crafts Llotja, in the Muralism Department. I have participated in several group painting exhibitions, as well as other expressions of art like performances. The one I liked the most was the suicide of a doll, she thought that “life without love was useless”, so she throwed her body made of found-objects out of the window...
At present moment I am solely dedicated to painting, either in canvas or for illustration purposes. I am studying the old techniques of painting, using pure materials and preparing them myself. Combining this with a contemporary language I am looking for a new expression for painting, an art that seems to be wrestling with digital images in the art world. |
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