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Carmen Reyes
About
1943 - Born in Colombia (South America)
since 1992 - living and working in Switzerland.
Artist formed by different cultures and possessing a solid ability of techniques , she expresses herself either through drawing , engraving and painting. She interprets the real in order to find it back through a vision which makes the image glide imperceptibly towards a form of abstraction.
Carmen Reyes's figurative work , far from being picturesque , refuses any talkative and servile transcription of the real. The artist approaches the viewed things in a shaded language. The subjects are sober without any annotation of decorum or accessories in order to broach in a better way , a furtive reality ,a stolen moment from a world that too often forgets to rest in order to observe.
Her sources of inspiration come from magazines , newspapers taken from the topical interests or simply suggested by daily life. Through her look , she gives rise to a personal dimension and makes her own a situation where the human body is always a primordial motif. She pursues her impression and emotion through these corporal postures of which she gives us only some essential signs.
It's most of all in her way of painting and of playing on the textures of the paper that Carmen Reyes reveals her peculiarity. The choice of a graphical support to elaborate her compositions is significant of her style.
Not a single coloured area invades the image , it's the line that dominates. The bodies get mixed up with space and all the figurative details are veiled. The subjects are sober whereas the rendering is extremely vivid. A singular workmanship that rhythms and unifies the picture elements and offers a relief work on the surfaces. Thus , the interpretation of Carmen Reyes's work of art opens itself to emotion.
Nadia El Beblawi
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- Website
- http://www.reyes.ch
Graduated of the faculty of Art at the University LOS ANDES in Bogota, Colombia.
Painting and drawing at the Academy of art in Rome.
Techniques of mural painting at San Giacomo in Rome.
Painting techniques and restoration at IRPA - Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique- Brussels.
Graduated of Rijckscentrum voor Hoger Kunstonderwijs-Brussels.
Study trips in Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Mexico and USA.
Member of the ''Visual arts association - Switzerland'' VISARTE.
Member of the artist register of the Museum of Latin American Art - MoLAA (California)
Prize :
1966 - First Prize of the National Painting Contest of Colombia.
2002 - Prix Ebel - Edelweiss - Switzerland
Collective Exhibitions :
1980 - RHOK Gallery : installation. Brussels - Belgium
1993 - Neuchtel - Switzerland
1997 - United Nations - Geneva
1999 - Europ'Art , '' Artists in Geneva '' (SPSAS)
2000 - Galerie Nelly L'Eplattenier , Lausanne-Switzerland
2001 - Second World Festival of Art on paper , Slovenia
2001 - Third ''Mostra Di Arte Contemporanea'' , Reggio Emilia - Italy
2002 - ''Ateliers portes ouvertes'' - Geneva - Switzerland
2002 - Galeria Arlindo Daibert - Juiz de Fora - Brazil
2002 - Galeria Ibere Camargo - Porto Alegre - Brazil
2002 - Galerie Art Varms - Geneva - Switzerland
2003 - Galerie Villa Dutoit - VISARTE - Geneva - Switzerland
2003 - Centro Cultural Roberto Palmari - Sao Paulo - Brazil
2004 - ICHIM Berlin 04 - Digital Culture and Heritage
2006 - Centre d'Art en L'Ile - Geneva - Switzerland
Individual Exhibitions:
1966 - National Library of Bogota, Colombia.
1981 - RHOK Gallery in Brussels -Belgium
1994 - Crans-prs-Cligny, Switzerland
1999 - Fischlin Gallery in Nyon, Switzerland
2000 - Picpus Gallery in Montreux, Switzerland
2001 - Galerie de la Ferme Sarasin - Geneva, Switzerland
2003 - Galerie Catherine Ngre - Paris - France
2005 - HUG - Cesco - Geneva - Switzerland
2006 - Geneva International Airport - VIP rooms
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Events & Exhibitions
Events
Future Shows: see website : www.reyes.ch
