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Galería Isabel Hurley•Jun 21, 2024 — Aug 02, 2024
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This is Cybèle Varela's first solo exhibition at the Isabel Hurley Gallery since 2022, when she exhibited jointly with Pepa Caballero. This time the Brazilian artist presents a new group of older pieces dating from the beginning of the 1990s – pictures, paintings and one object- that echo aspects of her earlier production and herald much of what would happen in the following years.
A self-taught artist, born at the beginning of the 1940s in the Rio de Janeiro mountains, Varela began to paint at an early age. Following in the steps of her mother she first studied to be an opera singer but soon lost interest in a future on stage and signed up for a painting course at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Rio de Janeiro [MAM-RJ] and decided to pursue a life in the visual arts. However hints of the performing arts and the creation of scenographic moments are present through all the different stages of her life’s work.
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Galería Isabel Hurley•Jun 21, 2024 — Aug 02, 2024
Press Release
This is Cybèle Varela's first solo exhibition at the Isabel Hurley Gallery since 2022, when she exhibited jointly with Pepa Caballero. This time the Brazilian artist presents a new group of older pieces dating from the beginning of the 1990s – pictures, paintings and one object- that echo aspects of her earlier production and herald much of what would happen in the following years.
A self-taught artist, born at the beginning of the 1940s in the Rio de Janeiro mountains, Varela began to paint at an early age. Following in the steps of her mother she first studied to be an opera singer but soon lost interest in a future on stage and signed up for a painting course at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Rio de Janeiro [MAM-RJ] and decided to pursue a life in the visual arts. However hints of the performing arts and the creation of scenographic moments are present through all the different stages of her life’s work.
Varela came-of-age professionally at a complicated political and...More
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