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Artist Exhibitions:
Since 1992 she took part in
more than 170 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 Reviews:
“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...
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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
- Public and private...
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Artist Statement for Graciela Bello
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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.)
Among Argentine painters, my admiration for Antonio Berni –with the sensitivity of his faces and his wonderful collages- makes him one of my role models.
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, ideas; those paintings which become poetry.
In the 1990’s I decided to exhibit my work, with thirty years old and my small son.
When I began to exhibit my paintings, the first themes which inspired me were the memories of my childhood, my family, the world of my grandparents: that world should not vanish; it should be somehow immortalized in my works. I felt that I had to pay a tribute to my beloved grandfather and grandmother from my mother’s side, innate craftsmen – a carpenter and a shirt- and dress-maker, respectively. Their gifted hands, which used to fix and make everything blossom, were inherited by my mother, who arranged flower centerpieces, her grandson's costume, or my wedding hairdo with the same devotion. Today, all those hands –that preceded those of the artist’s- join together in my hands, which try to express beauty, order, fantasy, and harmony.
That stage lasted approximately ten years, including detailed and descriptive works.
Since 2000, I have begun to go through a different phase in both my life and my work.
A few tough events which I had to face at that time –the loss of some beloveds, and a sheer feeling of fragility and uncertainty- undoubtedly impacted my “perfect world” and took me to a different stage.
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 worked 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.
“The equilibrists” also had their stages: a first oneiric and poetic stage which leads me to the land of magic and dreams, where real and unreal things become blurred…
Then I painted the "Argentinean equilibrist " series, inspired on the crisis in my beloved country.
Then ,this idea grew and arrived to the "bussiness man", a common executive, a man of the XXI century, lost in abstract areas, crossing empty cities, looking for balance and answers in an inhospitable and indifferent world, today's world.
I feel that I still have a lot to say and other languages to experience. My game must go on.
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