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Friday 4 January 2019

Workshop “Acrylic and Drawing Techniques” by Gustavo Paris

ORANJESTAD — Ateliers
’89 kindly invites you to
their next painting work-
shop with international
artist Gustavo Paris. Each
person has his own singu-
lar way to express his own
creativity and wit. Therefore
the artist presents this work-
shop “Acrylic and Drawing
Techniques” applied to the themselves up” towards sciousness.
search of contemporary in- space. In fact, they resem- Gustavo Paris was born in
dividual concept, connect- ble cosmic landscapes, Venezuela in 1974. He start-
ing creative ideas with ap- fragments of galaxies cap- ed his studies at a very ear-
plied technical fundamen- tured in their continuous ly age at the art academy
tals developing paintings and eternal becoming. In taught by artist Ildebran-
and drawings during three some pieces, the artist in- do Rossi. He received his
weeks. troduces - as a backdrop – bachelor’s degree in Plas-
a segment of this starry cos- tic Art in 2001 at the Cecilio
In recent years the use mos that have generated Acosta Catholic University
of mixed media in paint- so many dreams in man- in Zulia, Venezuela, where
ing has brought down the kind; in others, he places a he started his career as a
drawing-painting border, veiled horizontal bar that, professor, teaching paint-
making art expression rich- by exercising a contrast- ing, drawing, and graphic
er and more profitable. ing tension with the paint- art language from 2005 to
The expansive movement ing’s dynamic brushstrokes, 2010. Paris also taught at
so characteristic of Gus- contribute to the idea that the Julio Arraga National
tavo Paris full body of work a “human” landscape can School of Plastic Arts from
can be described in this be created - fantasized, 2008 to 2016. He is currently
manner. His works “open dreamed of, and designed a full-time professor for the
- even in Extra-planetary Faculty of Arts at the Uni-
environments. versity of Zulia where he’s
The artist and professor been teaching painting
Gustavo Paris will supervise and drawing since 2012.
you in the developing of Gustavo Paris has a long
your own expression by do- trajectory and exhibition
ing drawing and painting record that includes exhibi-
exercises which will lead tions in multiple cities in the
to a final exhibition. He world.
thinks that every creator “Reaching the intangible
has an ability to transform seems difficult and impos-
the world - whether near sible, however the thought
or distant from him or her- travels beyond reason and
self - into something more attracts the invisible to the
significant than its natural visible, to be transported
appearance. into a space of emptiness,
Every non-figurative cre- of the internal and finds
ator is bent on transcend- ideas and translates them.
ing common things in or- It translates into my pur-
der to arrive at the spiritual pose of existence”, Gus-
through an implicit act of tavo Paris (2012).
faith, which manages to
transmit to a truly sensitive The workshop will take
and intuitive spectator. In place from Monday Janu-
Paris lyrical abstraction- ary 7th 2019 till January 31st
ism, we notice a voyage 2019 at Ateliers ’89 located
towards an internal land- at Dominicanessenstraat
scape, and in some way, 34, in Oranjestad. For more
a connection with the cos- information visit their face-
mos from the internal con- book page Ateliers ’89. q