Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Paola Gaviria @ Cyane Delamade



Paola GAVIRIA Drawer

Drawing around

Thanks to an abundant and varied drawings production, the artist from Colombia-Ecuador tells with details the world around her, the daily life of her relatives, appearing to be detached from international politics when in fact she closely relates to it.

Paola Gaviria’s drawings are traced as writings in a dairy, as notes on a music paper, with candor and commitment. There is a rhythm in the unfolding sheet of paper showing, one after the other a pair of shoes after a pair of tennis shoes, on a Japanese paper roll.

Paola Gaviria makes a personal inventory each time she moves. She has to get rid of cluttering things; so, she is drawing them in order to keep something material of them. Beyond abandonment, this is change. Regular cleaning out of the closets of what is unused, is, in Buddhist practice, a way to lighten mentally and to help being renewed faster.
In her Moleskine sketchbook, pen ball drawings are other artworks, outside, this time. Sydney streets, Darlinghurst et Kingscross, stretch on pages like on a fan: façades of houses, windows, and portraits of riparians. Those streets sketches are typical from the undergroundSydney the Colombian artist has observed during several months, The outcome of Paola Gaviria´s work, is that of magnificient panoramic views, one of the drawings is a watercolor mural and the other smaller one is pen ball.

Fernando IX University