Biography
Delfina Renck Reis make draws, illustration, paintings and sculptures.
The luminous color, the sense of humor, the ludic, the intuition and the dialog with the unconscious mind are present in all of these modalities. She creates paintings, sculptures and utilitarian objects using the technique of the papier maché,
Beyond researching new materials, her esthetic research walks side by side with the ambient awareness, through the creation of sculptures in papier maché, sonorous objects(objetos sonoros) and puppets, recycling and transforming materials.
The last series are: Standards of Saints (Estandartes de Santos), with strong references to the popular art, Flying (Voadores), where some paintings receive mixing technique treatment and assamblage, and the series Women of the World(Mulheres do mundo).
1972, first exhibition, with 15 years old.
1988, Three Girls, acrilyc on canvas,
Leopoldo Gotuzzo Museum collection.
Curriculum Vitae
Plastic artist graduated by the UFRGS (Federal University of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Art-educator graduated on Bennett Institute, Rio de Janeiro, participated in the period between 1973 and 2007 of 26 Individual Exhibitions in Brazil and Spain. She has participated more than 60 collective Exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal and France, including some Halls of Art, in three of them, received Honor Mention.
She has formation in Art therapy and she also acts in the areas of Illustration, Scenography and Scenographic painting. She guides courses of Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain and Workshops of Creative Expression, Art and Papier Maché, for children and adults. She was teacher of Drawing and Plastic in the School of Beautiful Arts of UFRJ (Federal University of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Currently she is coursing Master´s graduation in Science of the Art, at the UFF(Federal Fluminense University, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and currently she is dedicated to create her toy art series. +more.
On the left Mommy and Daddy Dating, acrilyc on canvas, 1988,
On the right, Delfina with Bichossaurus, Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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DODOS AND DADAS
When you have a relatively long artistic trajectory, is interesting to observe in which ways the recovery of our direction come into being, returns to old themes.
In the same way that we come across a geographic place we haven´t visited for years, by coming back to the place we can find it untouched, destructed or modified, but in any case, our look will be different, transformed by all our experience accumulated between periods.
All that talk is to arrive here and now, in today and in what I am creating at the this moment, it sends me to a time behind, to be specific, exactly 25 years ago, when I idealized, cut, sewed and stuffed a cloth doll (or should we call a softy sculpture).
It was the first Dada, it turned to be an excellent “alive” model in the drawing lessons at the university.
To shorten this history, today it is an young adult with 25 years and this is the accurate age that I had when I created it. Now I know that what I made at that time is called toy art and are the toys that many artists and designers are dedicated to produce for a mainly adult public. What I show here is the result of an overwhelming immersion in this universe of toys, that grabbed from the month of April of 2007 and practically "forced" me to become available dozens of dolls suddenly. A passion that takes me all time available, the ideas gushing out in a overflow. The result is there, with you...Dodos and Dadas!
Have fun.Delfina Renck Reis, May 2007.