Verónica Vázquez
Bio
(Treinta y Tres, Uruguay, 1970) is a self-taught artist, having studied the disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, Engraving, Ceramics, Tapestry and History of Art. Her education indicates various interests that blossom and are evident in her current work, in an integrated and mature fashion. Choosing rugged, unyielding materials such as cardboard, metal plates and iron, Vázquez creates geometric forms that appear to be interwoven. She has a signature egalitarian treatment of the sculptures she creates and the space that surrounds them, privileging negative space so that it may be appreciated as an equal to her sculptures. Just as rhythm cannot exist without silence to accent the sound that follows, Vázquez’s forms rely on negative space.
Statement
Working with these materials is working on our own limitations, working with the structure of the image, forgetting the story, the narration, to only see straight lines, curves, spots, dots, shapes. Think the idea of unity, with the same shapes or proximity or using lines or grids or leaning one on another or putting them in the same direction or by color or by intervening a structure, then: think, try, sew, tie, join, weld, fold, cut, enjoy.
Additional information
Eligiendo materiales resistentes e inflexibles como cartón, planchas de metal y hierro, Vázquez crea formas geométricas que parecen estar entretejidas. Este trabajo fue presentado en la reciente exposición individual del artista en la Galería Piero Atchugarry en Miami.
