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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 “Magical paintings” 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 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 canvas impregnated with color! If only I could do so!!!! I hope I will have the strength to dare at least a little bit…


Artist Exhibitions



Since 1992 she took part in more than 220 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 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- Dublín, Ireland (2007- 2008)
*Biblioteca Civica Berio, “Project Letters”- Genova, Italia (2009)
*Encuentro Internacional de Cultura Surrealista actual “El umbral secreto”– Museo Salvador Allende, Diario La Nación, Museo Casa Colorada, Santiago de Chile. (2009)
*"Forum Universal de las Culturas" - Valparaíso, Chile. (2010)
*Vinyl Records Show- Hodlooms Records, Tempe, Arizona, USA. (2011)
*Art Zurich International, Zurich, Switzerland. (2011)
*Affordable Art Fair Spring edition, New York, USA. (2012 and 2013)
*Affordable Art Fair, Mexico DF. (2012 and 2013.).

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 were used as book covers (novels, poetry and educational books), CDs and magazines.

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Artist Publications



“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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Artist 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 Solidaridad, Salvador Allende - Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Public and private Schools (Argentina)
- Artworks in particular collections of Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Dominican Republic, USA, Ireland.



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