Lao Gabrielli

Vibrant color and geometric abstraction are a common denominator in Gabrielli's work. Chromatic alterations is a visual game, through color and geometry in the plane. Thus promoting an optical reality and apparently altering and accelerating moving lines through geometric sequences and color variation that expand the pictorial object to two or more dimensions.

The influence of Francisco Sobrino resonates in the work of Lao Gabrielli, where the investigation by light, movement and space remain latent in each piece. The artist moves from the luminous and colorful plane to a dynamic surface that moves both in physical reality and in optical reality. The minimalist game of geometries presents us with new and agile kinetics that evoke the Argentine kinetic school of the sixties led by Julio Le Parc and the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV).

The painter transcends geometric abstraction to create displacements in opposite or contiguous directions that generate visual sequences. The repetition of simple forms produces a fast and lively aesthetic in its tones. Lao seeks with scientific precision to capture the greatest amount of light through transparent acrylics in her creations, as well as in the two-dimensional planes on canvas, metal, silk fabrics, papers as well as her objects in her art. To define her as an author of kinetic art or optical art would be to reduce her creative capacity. She is an expert in movement whether it is real or illusory.

The use of semi-hidden mirrors in the background of the paintings promote lighting and accelerate the moving lines, while expanding the pictorial object to two dimensions. Then the viewer is placed in front of a seemingly flat, but actually two-dimensional painting - sculpture through which all kinds of quanta and photons come in and out, hitting the pupils with force and returning with greater movement and speed to the works.

BIO

Lao Gabrielli (Argentina, 1971)

Visual artist and graphic designer, she has lived in Mexico City for 11 years. She studied Graphic Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires and studied architecture for a year at the same University. She completed her artistic studies with Maestro Guillermo Roux and restoration studies at Mónica Tezanos Pinto's workshop in the same city.

She participated in New York City in the seminars of Master Anna Rank and Master Julio Alpuy of Constructivism by Joaquín Torres García, in Musei e Patrimonio seminars with Dr. Mercedes Auteri in Art and Museography. As well as in the Conference based on the architectural-artistic interrelation of Maestro Eduardo Terrazas at the Javier Marín Foundation, Mexico City.