praia (2004) Sculpture by Renata Monteiro De Barros

Renata is art in woman form "the universe has start in the soil where if it inhabits". With this phrase, authorship of some poet, I left the atelier of the Renata. After long papo informal (I had the sensation and to see shaping it its adobe women...), the sculptor said of its work with much ternura and enthusiasm to me. "I make sculpture since 1984. There they had happened first vendas in commercial circuit. New productions, always working the feminine forms... ". Renata was pupil of the sculptor Cristiano Ariel Teixeira, in the time of the Lages Park, in Rio De Janeiro in 1986. The beginning of everything is always the feminine body. She is the artist who in the account: "It is perhaps what it stimulates... for my feminine condition. To place in the clay the figure of the woman... of the adobe we came... ". In 87 Renata received medal from silver in XXIII the Feminine Hall of the Brazilian society of Beautiful Arts, Rio De Janeiro - Prize Zélia Moreaux. Inhabitant in Piratininga in Niterói, Rio De Janeiro, has as landscape the lagoon and the rock of the Topsail. There the inspiration arises, involved for the mother-nature. "Land is everything... is begins it... the oceanic region is very rich in this type of material for my works. Adobe the clay if transforms... the creation if it gives in the clay... the part goes for the special oven, passing for a baking - it turns land quota there - (cozida) or I leave to the natural one, giving a finishing... ". Renata Comments. In 1990 it was bronze medal in the World-wide Exposition of Filatelia and Visual Artes, RIO DE JANEIRO. Its sculptures are marcantes for its inquietude, are put into motion, expressed emotion. "With the raw adobe, already I made an exposition in the CCPCM - Cultural Center Pascoal Great Carlos, in Niterói, the year of 1986, on the subject: "Back of woman". They were parts in raw adobe, with finishing to be displayed in all form of creation ". - Renata comments. A convention of that exists how much less casting, more serious becomes it workmanship of the artist. The value in all the directions is more commercial. The sculptor explains: "the old artists, since 1800, ordered to cast only three parts. Today he turns around 5 the 8 parts. The artist numbers each part, and its value is identical, when all they are signed by it ". Although everything, the market is not favoring. To put has space for that they present quality. The art always goes to have value when the proposal is to create a serious work. As of Renata the Hunter of Barros, gold medal in 1º Hall of Plastic Arts of the Naval club of Rio De Janeiro, with sponsorship of the Brazilian Academy of Beautiful Arts, and promoted for the Brazilian Center of Cooperation and Interchange of Social Services. The alone ones with its diverse forms of woman, we observe a sensuality world, intensely beating for all its atelier, as if the women of the world lived all there. Text of the journalist Pablo Robert Ceccheti

• Nationality: BRAZIL
• Date of birth : 1940
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• Groups: Contemporary Brazilian Artists