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natalia revilla

1981 / Lima, Perú

Natalia Revilla has developed a series of poetic works based on the violence of common places and how this transformation is part of a collective crisis that continues to shape its mark on the individual. The pieces`s strength lies in the subtly portray of heartrending scenes (appropriated from photographic documents) with a suggestive view, in wich by the vacuum is able to restore in ourselves the crucial reality of circumstances and events of the past.

In her previous series Quemados (Burned), she recovers that wich underlies in our collective memory through the vacuum generated by the trace of fire on the drawing; while in Ruido Blanco (White Noise) the violence of the images moves to support the work itself, leaving a empty space resulting in finely pierced silhouettes on white paper.

Revilla has a degree in painting from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She has had solo exhibitions in Lima and Buenos Aires and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Lima, Barcelona, Chicago, Córdoba, and Santiago de Chile. Her work is in the collections of Tama University of Arts, Japan and Florean Museum in Romania.

natalia revilla

río negro (black river)installation of black acrilic fretted plates

variable dimensions2013

lo invisible es un lugar

In lo invisible es un lugar (invisible is a place), the artist turns her gaze to the commonplace, to the territory holder of an almost magical evocative power and of symbolic transfer of the distant, nearly forgotten. Vacuum becomes the main character speaking to us by its absence, able to restore in our memories the crucial circumstances and events of the past; a key element for setting stories that tell us about our collective history and own identity.

Through these works, we presence the personal fracture that involves facing the violent transformation of places and landscapes that were the scene of significant experiences in the development of one s life. The destruction of these areas, either by our intervention or depletion of natural resources, or explosions of violence to society, are part of a collective scale crisis does not stop to imprint their mark on the individual through physical or imaginary injuries.

Given the irremediable alteration of the spaces of our memories, it is touching, even tragic, to realize that memory cling to places, leaving from subtle to violent traces on the human psyche. For even under the weight of destruction, we see that the magnetic aura of those places, far from fading away are transformed into enigmatic and disturbing images that remain weaving the maps of our retrospective routes.

s/tmixed media on canvas

80 x 120 cm2013

s/tmixed media on canvas

80 x 105 cm2013

s/tmixed media on canvas

80 x 105 cm2013

s/tmixed media on canvas

80 x 120 cm2013

s/tlaser cut paper125 x 300 cm2013

cerro coloradodrawing on paper 35 x 100 cm2013

s/t laser cut paper65 x 50 cm 2013

s/t laser cut paper65 x 50 cm 2013

s/t laser cut paper65 x 50 cm 2013

s/t laser cut paper65 x 50 cm 2013

s/t from the series Nosotros vivimos en la zona mucho antes de que existiera la República del Perú (We lived in the zone long before the existence of the peruvian republic)silkscreen on paper 50 x 72 cm c/u2013

exhibition

*1981 / Lima, Perú

STUDIES

• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. School of Arts. Degree in painting.• Encuentro de Gestiones Autónomas (Congress of Autonomus Managment). Encuentro Nacional de Gestores Culturales (National Congress of Cultural Managment) .Córdoba, Argentina.• Seminary Semiotica y Retorica de lo Visible (Semiotics and Rhetorics of the Visible), lecture by Jean-Marie Klinkenberg. Universidad de Lima. • Seminary Realización De Proyectos De Arte Contemporáneo (Development of Contemporary Art Projects).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Lo invisible es un lugar, Wu Gallery, Lima. Perú2011 Outgraphy. Pabellón 4 Gallery. Buenos Aires 2010 Días grises. Vértice Gallery. Lima 2007 Atlas de anatomias comparadas. Bipersonal. Vértice Galery. Lima

GROUP EXIBITIONS

2014 No View, Wu Galeria, Lima, Peru2012 La tiranía de la intimidad. Centro Cultural de España. Lima, Perú.2011 El placer es más importante que la victoria. Tasneem Gallery. Barcelona. Curated by Miguel López. Pura Herida. La Culpable. Curated by Jimena Brescia and Rodrigo Quijano. Chaco. 3rd Edition. Contemporary Art Fair. Santiago de Chile. Transition. The Mission Gallery. Chicago. Swab. International Contemporary Art Fair. Barcelona. ArteBa. 20th Edition. Art Fair at Buenos Aires. Argentina. Miradas sin Coordenadas. 80m2 Gallery. art & debates. Lima. Curated by Jorge Vilacorta.

natalia revilla

2010 Salirse, insistir. Genaro Pérez Museum. Córdoba, Argentina. Curated by Lucas di Pascuale. Scoope. Contemporary Art Fair. Miami. Chaco. 2nd Edition. Contemporary Art Fair. Santiago de Chile. Las imágenes no cambian, pero sí los ojos que las ven. Project El Vidrio. Espacio Documenta, Córdoba, Argentina. 2009 Second Fair of Young Art at Sala Cero. Animal Gallery. Chile. Inverosímil. Vértice Gallery. Curated by Catalina Mena. Lima, Perú. Dibujo: nuevas propuestas. 80m2 Gallery arts & debates. Lima, Perú. Coser + dibujar + colorear. Qorikancha Gallery. Cusco, Perú.2008 La Generación del Espectáculo: Arte Peruano Contemporáneo. Kiosko Gallery. Curated by Miguel Zegarra. Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Re-genero. Centro Cultural España. Curated by Paloma García and Pilar Talavera.2006 Museo De Arte Contemporáneo, Arequipa, Perú.2005 El Muro. Praxis Gallery. XV Concurso Nacional De Artistas Jóvenes. Centro Cultural España. Lima, Perú. VIII Concurso Pasaporte Para Un Artista. Centro Cultural Pucp. Lima, Perú. Arte Joven En Miraflores. Miro-Quesada Garland Gallery. Lima, Perú. Aproximaciones A Lo Cotidiano. Enlace Gallery. Lima, Perú. Rehuso Al Desuso. Punctum Gallery.

PUBLICATIONS

• Miguel López and Sharon Lerner, “El placer es mas importante que la victoria”, Tasneem Gallery, Barcelona, 2011• Augusto Chimpen, “Natalia Revilla”, Art Nexus, Agosto, 2010• Gonzalo Galarza, ‘El Peso de la Violencia’, El Comercio, Lima, Perú, April, 2010• Línea y cuerpo, dibujos de artistas peruanos contemporáneos. Felipe Mayuri - Iván Fernández editors, Lima, 2010• Sybille Castelain, “El Cuerpo: Su identidad”, Artmotiv, Lima, 2008• Marianne Blanco, ‘Discursos en Torno a la Feminidad’, El Comercio, Lima, Perú, Junio, 2008• ‘Sombra Madre’, Caretas, Junio, 2008• Carlos Sotomayor. ‘Diálogo creativo’. Expreso. Lima, Perú, October, 2008• Miguel Zegarra, Atlas de Anatomías Comparadas, Anuario Galería Vértice, Lima, 2007• Miguel Zegarra, “Profile: Lima: Vertice Galería de arte”, Contemporary Magazine, Annual 2007, Londres