Sonia Gil
Brasilien (Brasil)
www.soniagil.com.br
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Mischtechnik
Statement:
Sonia’s work is very ethereal and layered, yet at the same time has a strong sense of physicality. Cities provide her artistic inspiration. City spaces, physical and psychological, rendered into abstractions.
Lyrical, architectural, colorful, luminous; Sonia makes use of watercolor, acrylic and digital manipulated images to add lines and colors to city maps, creating strikingly beautiful images. It seems that her stock of imagination power about architectural beauty will never end.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Sonia was born in Salvador, Brazil, in 1961. She grew up in Rio de Janeiro and studied Architecture at the local School of Architecture and Urbanism (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and began her art studies at the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro. She attended art classes at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage and private art studios.
After graduating she persued a career as an architect, working with urban issues. From 1989 to 1994 she was the technical director of the Rio de Janeiro based NGO Institute of Technology for the Citizen, focusing on the sustainable urban environment.
Between 1994 and 1999 she helped to coordinate The United Nation´s Local Initiatives for the Urban Environment Program in Brazil. At the turn of the century she decided to move on again to start off, along with her husband, a Consulting firm to work with Marketing Intelligence and territory analysis, helping corporations to understand their outside business and to create new scenarios.
While working with territory analysis and coordinating a group of geographers and urbanists she developed a growing interest in the connection between maps and art. So she decided it was time to reinvent herself and become fully an artist.
She currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
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