Exposição em Ribeirão Preto na Megastore Paraler

Eu já gostava de Ribeirão Preto, agora então que pude unir o útil ao agradável foi ótimo.
A abertura da minha exposição foi ontem e fiquei muitíssimo feliz.
A livraria Paraler é, como o nome já diz, uma Megastore. Não tem como sair de lá sem uma sacolinha. A gente fica horas "namorando" a enorme opção de livros, a papelaria, Dvds, Cds, CdRoms, além da Lan House. Lá dentro tem também o "Paraler Café Letras e Música", super aconchegante e com atendimento impecável. A gente se sente em casa. Neste Café acontecem lançamentos literários, musicais e artísticos.
É lá que me receberam e me senti muito honrada pelo espaço cedido pela familia.
http://www.paraler.com.br/index.asp

Vi isto lá no Shopping Ribeirão e registrei. Não sei não, mas acho que vai virar um quadro. O Pinguin é a cara da cidade.
Pra quem não conhece Ribeirão Preto, de uma olhada nas postagens anteriores que fiz. Tem sobre o Pinguim, a Le Bonbon, Moda, o Mercadão e um personagem incrível que conheci por acaso.
http://www.virginiacosta.com/blog/2009/03/ribeirao-preto-choperia-pinguim.html

http://www.virginiacosta.com/blog/2009/03/le-bonbon-ribeirao-preto.html

http://www.virginiacosta.com/blog/2009/05/ribeirao-preto-moda.html

http://www.virginiacosta.com/blog/2009/04/ribeirao-preto-windowshopping.html

http://www.virginiacosta.com/blog/2009/04/ribeirao-preto-pessoa-impressionante.html

http://www.virginiacosta.com/blog/2009/03/ribeirao-preto-mercadao-central.html

Rsrsrsrsr...

As vezes eu finjo ser normalzinha mas é muito chato e então volto a ser eu mesma.

PS. Boa essa, né ?

Ping Pong with the artist

COLOUR- all blues, lilac, violet, bright greens
MOVIE- I prefer to watch them at home. Love some light cable series, Two and a Half Man, Friends, Lost, Sex and The City, Eli Stone, all CSIs, Medical Detectives, Ophrah, House.
SOAP OPERA- Don’t watch them anymore. They are too predictable nowadays.
GALLERY – National Portrait Gallery and The National Gallery in London.
LIKES– to visit the markets in all towns that I travel to and ship cruises
DISLIKES – ungrateful people, cell phones and exercising.
GURU – My brother Sergio and Jack White.
BOOK-I am reading "Beyond the Rising Sun" from Carlos von Schmidt and have ordered " The Gift of Fear"

MANIA – to take pictures and to bring water to the bedroom at night
CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT –my reading glasses, tweezers and scissors. I have lots of them spread all around the house
MY PRIDE – my three “children”MY GRATITUDE – to Rosemberg for having encouraged me to paint.
UNFORGETTABLE PERSON- my mother, whom I miss a lot, always.
UNFORGETTABLE- MOMENT– snorkeling, watching the live Carnival in Rio, going back home after days in hospital
MUSIC- “I Love You Just the Way You Are”
PASTIME – to travel through the images of Google earth, FreeCell, Sudoku
DISH – I keep changing. Nowadays: vatapá and acarajé (typical food from Bahia)
DRINK – coconut caipirinha with my feet on the strandDREAM – to have grandchildren, to snorkel in San Andres, travel to Costa Malfitana, Greece Turkey, Bora Bora, Mexico, Las Vegas, Jerez de la Frontera and all the Pueblos Blancos. I hope I have enough time for all that
NIGHTMARE – overweight and aging, of course.VISUAL ARTIST- Sonia Menna BarretoFAVORITE SINGER- Fafá de Belém and Barbara Mendes
GOOD LOOKING – Richard Gere
ACTRESS - Fernanda MontenegroCITY- Londres and Ilha Bela. Each for 15 days as often as possible. I like where I live too.
SWEETHEART – My female dog Meggy Maria, my camera and laptop
SHOPPING- I am perfectly happy going to a supermarket
THE GOOD SIDE OF LIFE – old friendsTHE TOUGH SIDE OF LIFE – to make the right choices

The artist by the artist

I have never thought that one day I would find so much pleasure in painting. I only regret it took me so long to find out this ability. Maybe that is why I spend so many hours painting, as if trying to recover the time lost. On the other hand, the access to the internet allows me to study art history, do research on techniques and styles, visit art galleries and museums. In short, it helps me taking the courses I didn’t have the opportunity to take before.

As anyone who starts discovering her true self, I have been through many phases in my painting, tried several techniques and themes in this search, always trying to find my own style, looking for that special paint brush that would make me feel comfortable and also being careful not to allow myself getting so influenced to a point of copying the artists I admire.Nowadays, with the series “Trips” I think I have found the theme and the style that fulfill me. The theme is fascinating and endless.

As for the style, that is the only thing that bothered me at first as I wanted to paint huge, decorative, with thrilling textures paintings. It is interesting how they simply don’t turn out this way! I start, very bravely, with a big brush, lots of paint and as time goes on I start to smooth out, smooth out, insert details, establish the contours, highlight the light-dark and the painting starts showing back my “realistic” style. Maybe that is why I have enjoyed so much making graffiti portraits. My liking for precision.Another dilemma was the size of the paintings. This series is 20x30cm. The smaller the painting, the more difficult it is to paint. Consequently, it takes me too long to finish them. Besides that, people tend to value a painting according to its size. Conclusion: my production has felt by half but I have never felt more fulfilled.The anxiety to finish a painting and starting another one and the endless search for technique improvement continue. I will need a few more lives to paint everything I would like to. Many times when I look at a painting I have done some time ago, I see some detail that could be improved and I start to fix it, but I end up painting the whole thing again. This results in more time consumption, new pictures, notes updating etc. But it doesn’t matter. This is part of my artistic growth.In the future I hope to be able to publicize my work by multiplicity, serighaphy or giclês. Maybe that is the solution!
Virginia