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Pedro Varela
Pedro Varela
  • 30, Male
  • Niterói
  • Brazil
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Henrietta Kozica and Pedro Varela are now friends Dec 1, 2011
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Photos posted by Pedro Varela Nov 30, 2011
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Pedro Varela commented on Henrietta Kozica's photo
Really beautiful! Love the colours
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Really cool!
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Website
http://www.pedrovarela.com
Relationship status
married
College / University
Universidade Federal from HELL DE JANEIRO
Program
Fine arts
Graduation
March 20, 2005
Member type
Artist
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Drawing, Event, Installation, Painting, Sculpture, Video
I am...
www.pedrovarela.com
About my artwork
The cities Pedro Varela draws are far more connected to literature than to any reference in the visual arts. As if waiting for a text by Borges to accompany them, they reserve large blank spaces on the paper. They could also be mirages seen from afar by a character of A Thousand and One Nights, cities with female names like those by Italo Calvino, or castles from a tale we keep from the infancy of our experience in literature.
To these fictional allusions, Varela merges buildings we know from real places: I ?ve seen that one in Chicago, that dome belongs to the city ?s cathedral, that’s the Ontario Tower! Amidst mountains, Varela ?s cities have a Rio de Janeiro accent: where but in Rio
can one see a little castle besides a monumental rock that seems to support the sky- scraper? And then the drawings pour out of ballpoint pens and, alive like a real city, do not respect the paper limits, invading walls and danger zones such as windows. The glass, by the way, is a recurrent support for Varela ?s experiences: looking through windows where his pen has been, we can see a castle hovering in the sky or exotic plants sprouting from the top of a concrete building. Varela also builds his magical and fluid worlds with adhesive vinyl sheets on paper, glass, wall, floor, or whatever he comes across and is willing to adhere to his whimsical urbanization.
Another support that corroborates the dreamy
aspect of Pedro Varela ?s style is fabric stretched on round wooden frames, which remind one of bubbles ready to disappear taking away the fantastic landscapes. Since 2008, Varela ?s cities also appear in three- dimensions, built with white paper and glue, hanging from the ceiling by strings or resting on very thin pillars.
A virtuoso in drawing and in the capacity to bewilder, Pedro Varela graduated in printmaking at the School of Fine Arts of UFRJ in 2005 and has already had shows in galleries in Rio de Janeiro, Mexico and Chile. In 2010 he will take part of the group show “Gigante pela Própria Natureza” at IVAN (Valencia, Spain) and will have a solo show at Paço das Artes, in São Paulo.

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Artists I like
Carolina Ponte, Carlos Contente, Brigida Baltar, Leonardo Ayres, Rodrigo Torres, Glaycia Mayer, Begue, Pedro Meyer, Thiago Pitta, Sandra Cinto, Klaus Reis, Joao Penoni, Carlos Garaicoa, Nino Cais, Marcelo Amorin, Ingres (drawing), Hokusai, Marcel Dzama, Los Super Elegantes, Isa Genzken, Ernesto Caivano, Hyeronimus Bosch, Oscar Niemeyer, Cao Fei, Francis Alÿs, Guignard, Cai Guo Qiang, Frank Lloyd Wright, Matisse, Nobuyoshi Araki, Vik Muniz, Martin Kippenberger, Neo Rauch, Takashi Murakami, Archigram, Franz Ackermann, Lu Hao, Cildo Meireles, Pedro Reyes, Helio Oiticica, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Daniel Guzman, Chris Johanson, Randall Sellers and others!
Interests
Drawing, installation, painting and arte latino.
Centre of the artworld:
New York, London, LA, Berlin, Beijing, my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere, another city


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At 2:22pm on March 15, 2011, Rossello DamianoRossello Damiano said…
At 5:55am on March 3, 2011, Victor Martinez DiazVictor Martinez Diaz said…
Hi, cool work! greetings from MExico!
At 2:19pm on February 8, 2011, Gabriel  =-··+··-=  2012 artworkGabriel  =-··+··-=  2012 artwork said…

You have some creative artwork combinations. ..

I like several of your artworks and the use of colours

like in your artwork-painting called "Blue Forest" :-)

At 1:54pm on February 8, 2011, judas arrietajudas arrieta said…

gracias pedro!

tu trabajo tb es increible!!

saludos!!

keep in touch!

At 5:35am on January 20, 2011, Carla PivonskiCarla Pivonski said…
Thanks for the add. Brilliant work!
At 3:28am on October 8, 2010, Nuno Nunes-FerreiraNuno Nunes-Ferreira said…
seu trabalho também não está nada mal... :)
At 9:15pm on October 7, 2010, 4807348073 said…
i love the emptiness of your landscapes.
At 5:54pm on October 7, 2010, Quirarte & OrnelasQuirarte & Ornelas said…
Hola! ya andamos por aqui también. Abrazo!
At 5:56pm on October 5, 2010, Robert JohanssonRobert Johansson said…
Thank you! I like your stuff too!
Greetings from Oslo
At 11:44am on August 10, 2010, ni da costani da costa said…
oi Pedro!!! seja bem vindo, beijo

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Pedro Varela

New website + Wallpaper* magazine

Hi!




This month I have some illustrations at the edition Born in Brazil / Nascida no Brasil of the Wallpaper* magazine.
Here is the link:






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