{"id":20633,"date":"2023-11-01T21:52:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fvarelaart.com\/?page_id=20633"},"modified":"2024-04-10T22:46:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T22:46:34","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fvarelaart.com\/en\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fernando Varela<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1951.
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A versatile artist, he is also an intellectual, passionate about philosophy and music, present in his plastic creation. We could describe it as iconography, the works testifying to his faith and, in a broader sense, his deep convictions. Very soon, transcendence has acquired importance in its plastic expression, which is translated first, by a search for perfection, by a demanding aesthetic process and a \u201cgolden\u201d balance even in asymmetry and linear impulses, since the inspiration of the sublime does not tolerate improvisation and laziness.<\/p>

Uruguayan by birth and training, Dominican by marriage, a long and definitive stay, a total integration, he did not feel the pressure of a geographical identity, preferring to immerse himself in millennia of fervor and sacred words, belonging to the history of humanity. .\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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His works were never easily deciphered: if, like every artist, he likes a perceptive response from the first glance, he prefers that we read, think, meditate before his drawing, his painting and his sculpture. He is an archaeologist of art who, in the quarry of perenniality, breaks the volumes, recovers the forms - figures, abstractions or letters -, generally austeres the palette... although lately he varied ranges and tonal register. Now, this visual thinker ignores dogmatism and thematic confinement. He made a decisive turn, turning towards the Caribbean, its waves and its yawls, pictorially whispering that \u201cthe island isolates\u201d and that life merges. death and migration\u2026<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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And in his lyricist paintings \u2013 another investigation \u2013 we investigated the clamors of the trip. Recently, he stopped in the humid forest of our latitudes, he brought his capacity for expressive synthesis to the essential without anecdote: protecting man, nature, threatened species. Fernando Varela's career means an artistic commitment, both unalterable and in perpetual renewal.\u00a0<\/p>

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2022<\/strong>
\u00abWorlds \u2013 The transits of Fernando Varela\u00bb Retrospective Exhibition. \u2013 Le\u00f3n Center \u2013 Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.<\/a>
\u00abEssays on Infinity\u00bb
Lucy Garc\u00eda Contemporary Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<\/a><\/p>

2019<\/strong>
Form and Void 2013 \u2013 2019 \u2013 Museum of the Americas \u2013 Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/a><\/p>

2018<\/strong>
Close \u2013 Oops \u2013 ASR Contemporary \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.<\/a><\/p>

2016<\/strong>
Form and Void \u2013 ASR Contemporary \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.<\/a><\/p>

2015<\/strong>
Recent Works \u2013 Museum of Modern Art \u2013 Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Sculptures and Drawings \u2013 Espacio 7 Gallery \u2013 La Romana, Dominican Republic<\/a><\/p>

2014<\/strong>
Recent Works: Paintings and Drawings \u2013 Space 7 \u2013 La Romana, Dominican Republic.<\/a>
Form and Void \u2013 ASR Contemporary \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.<\/a><\/p>

2013<\/strong>
Origins and Primary Forms \u2013 Museum of Modern Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.<\/a><\/p>

2012<\/strong>
Origins and Primary Forms \u2013 Mayor's Gallery \u2013 Parallel Exp. XI Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador.
Origins and Primary Forms \u2013 Metropolitan Museum of Culture of Quito, Ecuador.<\/p>

2011<\/strong>
Origins and Primary Forms \u2013 Museum of Anthropology and Contemporary Art \u2013 MAAC \u2013 Guayaquil, Ecuador.<\/a><\/p>

2009<\/strong>
Recent Works \u2013 The District & Co. \u2013 Santo Domingo, RD<\/a><\/p>

2008<\/strong>
Fragile Dreams \u2013 Varelli, Contemporary Art \u2013 La Romana, RD<\/a><\/p>

2007<\/strong>
Alternate Spaces \u2013 The District & Co. \u2013 Santo Domingo, RD<\/a><\/p>

2006<\/strong>
The Quiet Word \u2013 National Museum of Visual Arts \u2013 Uruguay.
The Quiet Word \u2013 Varelli, Contemporary Art, La Romana, RD<\/p>

2005<\/strong>
The Quiet Word \u2013 Museum of Modern Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, RD<\/a>
ARCO \u2013 Varelli, Contemporary Art \u2013 Madrid, Spain.
The Quiet Word \u2013 Museum of Modern Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, RD
La Islaaisla \u2013 Varelli, Contemporary Art La Romana, RD<\/a><\/p>

2004<\/strong>
Recent Works \u2013 Varelli, Contemporary Art \u2013 La Romana, RD
Curated Curator \u2013 Clark Center \u2013 Montreal, Canada.
La Islaaisla \u2013 Espacio Inter-peintures \u2013 Petionville, Haiti.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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2003<\/strong>
La Islaaisla \u2013 Untitled Gallery \u2013 San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>

2002<\/strong>
Recent works \u2013 Contrast Gallery \u2013 Brussels, Belgium.
Curated Curator \u2013 Museum of Contemporary Art, MAC- San Juan, PR
The Journey \u2013 Lyle O. Reitzel Contemporary Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, RD<\/p>

2001<\/strong>
Satie Suite \u2013 Chapel of Remedies \u2013 Santo Domingo, DR
Curated Curator \u2013 Museum of Modern Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, RD<\/a><\/p>

2000<\/strong>
Paintings and Drawings \u2013 Untitled Gallery \u2013 San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>

1999<\/strong>
The Magic of Fear \u2013 Cultural Center of Spain \u2013 Santo Domingo, DR<\/a>
Recent Works \u2013 Larrama Contemporary Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, RD<\/p>

1998<\/strong>
Museum of Modern Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.<\/p>

1997<\/strong>
Mac 2000 \u2013 Paris, France.<\/p>

1996<\/strong>
Contrast\/Fernet Gallery \u2013 Brussels, Belgium. Buchelhax Gallery \u2013 Silkeborg, Denmark.
Manif\/96 \u2013 Ami Gallery \u2013 Soulel, Korea<\/p>

1995<\/strong>
The Gallery \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Mac 2000 \u2013 Paris, France.<\/p>

1994<\/strong>
Museum of Latin American Art, OAS- Washington, USA
Corinne Timsit International Galleries \u2013 Paris, France.<\/p>

1993<\/strong>
Cagnes Museum \u2013 sur \u2013 Mer, France.
Altos de Chav\u00f3n Foundation Gallery \u2013 La Romana, RD<\/p>

1992<\/strong>
Corinne Timsit International Galleries \u2013 San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>

1991<\/strong>
Corinne Timsit International Galleries \u2013 Paris, France.<\/p>

1990<\/strong>
Altos de Chav\u00f3n Foundation Gallery, La Romana, RD<\/p>

1989<\/strong>
Botello Gallery \u2013 Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Gallery \u2013 Santo Domingo, DR<\/p>

1987<\/strong>
Altos de Chav\u00f3n Foundation Gallery \u2013 La Romana, RD<\/p>

1986<\/strong>
Museum of Modern Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, DR<\/p>

1983<\/strong>
Museum of Modern Art \u2013 Santo Domingo, DR
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