ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

We are happy to welcome to our Nordic land, two Latin-American artists, Mariana Escribano, from Mexico, and Maria Idilia Martins, from Venezuela. These highly-skilled, ultra-modern creative individuals will combine their organic and geometric esthetics to make a new universal and timeless world, made from forms and intuition.

This exhibition is part of the Festival International Montréal en Arts (FIMA).

SPECIAL EVENT:
"Finissage" closing party of this exhibit on Friday, 25 July 2008.
Click here for the invitation.

FOR MORE INFO

The website of FIMA:
www.festivaldesarts.org

The website of Mariana Escribano:
www.marianaescribano.com

The website of Maria Idilia Martins:
www.maridiliamartins.spaces.live.com

Exhibition dates:
July 3 - 26, 2008
Vernissage:
July 2, 2008 5:30pm - 8:00pm

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mariana Escribano - Born in Mexico City in 1970, Mariana Escribano grew up and studied in that city. She followed graphic design at the Ibero-American University, photography at the Active School of Photography, and painting at the National School of fine Arts in the Mexico National University. She has been showing her works in Mexico since 1998, either in solo or in groups and has had a solo show in Madrid, Spain, in 2005.

In her most recent works, Marina Escribano is inspired by concrete aesthetic experience, for example, that offered by a wall or by a pile of sheet metal. She creates autonomously, from a pure inventiveness made of chance and intention. To produce visual impressions, she manipulates transparency and opaque and creates with layers of color and paint a sense of depth.

Maria Idilia Martins - Born in Portugal, Maria Idilia Martins lives and works in Caracas, Venezuela, notably in the domain of conservation of monuments.
She started her training in ceramics and design, than followed sculpture classes. For the last few years, she studied visual arts in university, specializing in sculpture, and has taken second degree level in monument restoration.

Revealing Boxes is a study of perspectives in a sculptural space given concrete expression by the flattening of the three dimensions. The transformation of forms has as a departure point, an angle or a point of view. The distorsion of the image is a plastic rhetoric which suggests a new view of things, questioning real space in a playful and imaginative fashion.
The box closes up a space where images are always contained. The beauty of the cube is like that of an empty room entering into a direct dialogue with the spectator. These boxes reveal through their transparency, images made from lines and the play of shadows, creating an entity where container and contained are indivisible.