Cardinals Screen

Nature and Birds, Colors and Textures, brunches and Trees.
That seems to be my current inspiration.
As the birds came to the feeders that we have in our garden as my imagination capture them for ever in a fest of dance and music that last for ever!
This is a piece done on recycled doors. Screen that will horld for ever the sound of the wins on my birds flying around!

Recent Watercolor

Inspired by the Spring that you can face now, and by my remembers of the last one in Manhattan and the views of Central Park and the Hudson River Bank, I am creating a series of Medium Size Watercolors.

First Winter and Mixed Watercolors

My First Winter in Connecticut...was hard to see!
All that beauty and transformation of nature around me!
All those snow storm that we had that years...birds migrating, trees resting for a long winter night!I started to collect maps, and some others organic elements that I incorporated to my papers and then painted on the top of them!
It was such a creative and fun process to me!
Changing my life and my work too!
I remember...going to the Train Station in New London and taking maps for free there. Back to the studio gluing them in pieces and painting...!
That was January 2004!

Art of Transition!

Between worlds!
That is how I can explain this works I did between 2002-2003-2004!
Living in the a house build ed of adobe in the Cordillera de Los Andes in Santiago de Chile and moving to the United States.
That was a shock to me in the way that I question myself about my whole life, my heritage, mi destiny and my mission in life.

Fiesta

I was invited to paint a piece called and about Fiesta,
So I did...

“Fiesta”
Fiesta means holiday, celebration
and party in Spanish. It is a word
that inspires this work; a word rich in
deep meanings. In Peru, my own country,there are about 3000 typical fiestas
celebrated every year. At the time of painting “Fiesta,”

I imagined bodies seduced by the senses and the music
throughout this history. I saw happiness as an abstract
concept where even contours and emotion can be seen
and this atmosphere turns the present into happiness and activity.

I did a piece and show you the process that took place for months!
You can see the layers of colors as layer of though that cross my mind too!

Birds in my Paintings

What Birds are doing in my Paintings? Is something I don't know..
Just at some moments I have had the deep necessity of putting them in my compositions. Maybe are angels I guess, maybe just creatures that help me in my life! No idea, but they are there!
Thee works belong to different series of works and all of them have been exhibited in different parts, different years some even different medias!
But are there, Birds!
Creatures that fly as me, that immigrate as me, that are looking for a warm place as me too!

My Watercolors

I never studied watercolor...however is the most I have done in my life as a painter, I think!
At the time I studied Art in Peru and later on my later studies in Chile, nobody believe that watercolor could be a serious media for a serious artist too!
However, to me watercolor are such a wonderful medium to experiment and to create new spaces of color, texture, compositions and designs!

What is different between my Oils and Watercolors

What is the difference between oil painting and watercolor painting?

My water colors differ from my oil colors in the point of the transparency that I work with some times. My oils are much more a result of the procces of months of work while my watercolor are fresh and innovative all the time. Like squeches I do. Colors are lighter by the addition of water. Water as a medium it an element that works differnt in my brain.

My Watercolor are transparent and in essence just stains of paintings, color flying on the space without the use of white. White is a color that I consider in the composition as a frame that holds my works!
paint that I work with all the time.

Painting a real Violin!!!

It was nice, it was good but at the very beginning I was feeling like committing a sin!
At the very beginning the idea of having a real Violin and having the experience of painting it was an exiting idea, later on and having it in my hand couldn't stop thinking on those guys who like to play it, maybe talented and do not have one!

Any way! I did my best to translate the information I normally work with on canvases inside this material!
You judge it!

Violin = 2007

I got this Invitation one day
Dear Artists:

> It was a great pleasure to meet all of you last night. It is not an
> everyday occurrence to be in the company of such creative minds. Not
> only is it fulfilling but a certain energy is generated and I for one am
> still feeling it this morning!

> I wanted to invite you and a guest to attend our upcoming Symphony
> Series concert, January 27, 2007, 8pm, Woolsey Hall, New Haven. The
> concert features guest conductor William Boughton with the New Haven
> Symphony performing works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninov.
> What marks this event as special is that the NHSO is in the process of a
> music director search and Mr. Boughton is under serious consideration.

> In October of this year he conducted the orchestra for the first time
> and magic happened. The orchestra, audience and conductor were as one.
> This was music-making at its best.

> Whilst there are no assurances that the second performance will have the
> same intensity, the stage is set and we would love to have you join us.

> Please RSVP to Mary-Kate by January 25, 5pm. If you received a violin
> last night could you please contact Mary-Kate via email to confirm the
> number violin you received. We don't have a record of 5 and the donors
> would like to follow the violins.

> Very best for the Holiday Season,
>
> Natalie
>
>
>
And...desided to paint my own one!

Then, I desided to answer them with this!

Type: Deconstruct.
Medium: Oil.
Inspiration or Motivation: The interior trip violin invited us to do while listening its sounds.


The violin I am planning to create is one that is going to be not only painted, but some part removed to create bridges, small houses addressed like small streets that are going to created a reality in which I invite to viewer do start a tour inside themselves, as to me the sound, the notes of any violin invites us to start an interior trip and discover our interior but complex landscape.

In my work, I explore the intimate and interior places of myself as reflection of the human being. That idea I would take as a goal to paint the violin. Trying to recreate part of a small and ideal town. The ideal town that is our comfort zone, but also those places we do not like to investigate so much of ourselves.


The drawing up shows the idea that I have of how the violin could look.

The work will exceed more than three inches by side the original size of the violin would be provided. A violin base would be needed to be put the piece to be viewed.

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Solo Art Exhibitions

2007 Latins in the Borough Art Gallery, Stonington Ct USA.
2007 Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London CT USA.
O & Y Gallery, Coral Gables-Miami, FL-USA.
2006 Gallery Painen, Berlin, Germany
Gallery :Barbara Botz. Majorca, Spain
2005 Museo de la Nacion. Lima – Peru.
PFIZER, New London, CT-USA.
2004 Galería Internacional Praxis-Chile. Santiago-Chile
2003 Corporación Cultural de Valdivia. Valdivia-Chile
2003 Belenky Gallery. New York, U.S.A
2001 Gallery: Ana Maria Matthei. Santiago- Chile
2001 National Congress of the Republic of Chile. Valparaíso. Chile
2000 Gallery :Painen. Berlin, Germany
2000 Gallery: Nemesio Antúnez, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación. Santiago de Chile, Chile.
1998 Galería del Congreso de la Republica. Valparaiso, Chile
1998 Galería Internacional Praxis. Santiago, Chile.
1997 Gallery: Painen. Berlin, Germany
1997 Club Die Deutsche Gesellsgaft fur Tegnisge Zusammenarbeit. Eschborn, Frankfurt, Germany.
1996 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo. Santiago - Chile
1996 Club Die Deutsche Gesellsgaft fur Tegnisge Zusammenarbeit. Eschborn,Frankfurt, Germany
1995 Galería de Arte 715. Lima, Peru
1995 Gallery :Im Kreis Krankenhaus. Weinheim, Germany
1995 Galería de Arte del Centro de Extensión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Santiago de Chile, Chile.
1994 Iberian-club. Bonn, Germany
1994 Gallery :Barbara Botz. Majorca, Spain
1993 Gallery : Municipal Library of city of Weinheim. Weinheim, Germany
1993 Galería de Arte 715. Lima Peru
1993 Gallery :Argos. Vienna, Austria
1991 Galería de Arte 715. Lima, Perú
1990 Viña del Mar City Hall. Viña del Mar, Chile
1989 Gallery : Foundacion. Santiago, Chile
1989 Gallery : Hall I. Concepción, Chile
1989 Galería de Arte 715. Lima, Peru.





Group Exhibitions

2007 Courtyard Gallery, Mystic,Ct-USA.
2007 New Haven Sinphony Orchestra, The Art Violin Project, Ct-USA.
2007 Mildford Open Doors, Mildford Ct-USA.
2006 Alexey von Schlippe, Gallery of Art. University of Connecticut, Ct USA.
2006 Brick Gallery, Ct USA.
2006 Courtyard Gallery, Mystic Ct USA.
2006 Mystic Art Center, Mystic, Ct USA.
2005 Mitchell College Library, New London Ct-USA.
2005 GTZ. Frankfurt -Germany.
2005 Courtyard Gallery, Mystic Ct-USA.
2005 Volksbank, Weinheim- Germany.
2005 Courtyard Gallery, Mystic Ct-USA.
2005 Brick Gallery, Essex Ct-USA.
2004 Alexey von Schilppe Gallery of art UCONN Avery Point Campus, Groton Ct-USA.
2004 Latin Views 2004 at The Mystic Art Center, Mystic Ct-USA.
2004 Brick Gallery, Essex Ct-USA.
2004 The Alexey von Schilppe Gallery of art UCONN Avery Point Campus, Groton Ct- USA.
2003 Consulado de Colombia, Miami. Miami-USA
2002 Galería de Arte Ana Maria Matthei. Santiago-Chile.
2001 Gallerie:Barbara Botz. Port of Andraixt- Majorca -Spain.
2001 Castle of the city of Neckarhause, Neckarhause-Germany.
2000 University of playa Ancha. Playa Ancha- Chile.
2000 Gallery: Ana María Matheii. Santiago- Chile
1999 Art Action: Open Doors, Heidelberg, Germany
1999 Galería de Arte Ana Maria Matthei, Santiago - Chile
1999 Federación Wizo of Chile, Club of Golf of The Meadow, Santiago, Chile
1998 Foundation Syrlin, Stuttgart, Germany
1998 Congresses Center Dorint, Mannheim, Germany
1998 Federación Wizzo of Chile, Club Golf of the Meadow, Santiago, Chile
1997 Foundation Burg Kniphausen, Wiehelmashaven, Germany
1997 Open air Horizon, Frieberg, Germany
1997 Gallerrie Barbara Botz, Majorca, Spain
1996 Stadtbibliothek Weinheim, Germany
1996 Galería de Arte 715, Lima, Peru
1995 Rhein-Mosel-Koblenz, Germany
1995 Galería de Arte 715, Lima Perú
1994 Galería de Arte 715. Lima, Peru
1994 Gallerie :Barbara Botz,Port of Andraixt- Majorca, Spain
1994 Galería de Arte Vargas, Lima, Perú
1994 Stadthaus, Mannheim, Germany


Corporate and Permanent Public Collections

-NHSO; New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
-Contemporary Art Museum, Chiloe, Chile.
-University of Connecticut at Avery Point, Ct USA.
-I-Park, Ct USA.
-Weimheim Art Museum, Weimheim, Germany.
-Friendship School, Waterford, Ct. USA.
-Griffis Art Center, New London Ct, USA.
-Museum of Modern Art, Lima - Peru
-CCU, Cervecera CCU Chile Ltda., Santiago de Chile, Chile
-Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación,
Santiago de Chile, Chile.
-El Mercurio, Newspaper, Santiago de Chile, Chile
-Der Team, calendar, Frankfort, Germany.
-Revista Ambiente, Santiago de Chile, Chile
-Sparkasse Furtwangen, Furtwangen, Germany.
-Der Weinheimer, newspaper from Weinheim, Germany.
-GTZ-Club, Frankfurt- Germany.
-Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Estetica, Santiago de Chile, Chile
-Valdivia City Hall Gallery, Valdivia, Chile.
-La Escondida, Mining Company, Chile.
-Integral , Building Company, Lima, Peru
-Popular y Porvenir, Insurance company, Lima, Perú.


Art Residencies

2005 Invited Artist in Residence by I-Park. East Haddam, CT- USA.
2004-2003 Artist in Residence at The Griffis Art Center. Griffis Art Center, New London CT - USA.

Awards & Honors

2002 Critic of Art & Art Curators Association Award. Best 2002 Art Show in Valparaíso -Chile.
1989 Valdivia y su Río, Award. Valdivia- Chile
1987 Integral, CORP. Award, Lima-Perú
1987 Popular & Porvenir Award, Lima-Perú.
1985 Fundacion por los ninos del Peru. Italian Museum. Lima – Peru.




Selected Publications

“El Comercio”, Peru 1987

“El Comercio”, Peru 1988.

“La Epoca”, Chile 1995.

“Das Musische Gesicht”, Germany 1998

“El Mercurio”, Chile 1999.

“Sparkasse Furtwangen”, Germany October 2000.
Cover and Article; “Ambiente”, Chile April-May 2001.
Arte al Dia, Miami 2002.
“Cosas”, Chile, 2004.

Artist Statement

In my paintings I endeavor to express my own vision of reality. It is not a tangible reality, but one that evokes a particular magic in each human being, one in constant conflict. My visual aesthetic proposition symbolizes the passing of time in an ethereal atmosphere, where forces constantly fight to meet their point of equilibrium to find the inner, always hidden, other face of the human being that is on the no-time reality. I try to create a universality of expression that allows perhaps for the present to meet the future.

I want the viewers to discover themselves in each part of my work. I create art as a mirror image that would push the development of new structures as an internal process full of discoveries and also conflict. I try to look for a greater interaction between the work and the spectator, to try to engage viewers to look for new meaning inside their beings.

I work with icons that I have created mostly on my own, using sometimes gold as an expression of our external-internal struggle between our many different selves, our private and our own ambiguity. In my work there is always a tension between different parts of the design. Trying to express the internal contradiction that is always life is why I mostly paint just mere insinuations of bodies in constant transformation. Bodies and organic forms that are, even after I finish my paintings, in a constant transformation like in our memories after things happen. Those organic forms are always looking for a reality inside another reality which is itself a contradiction.

Later on I have understood more about my aesthetic creation as the expression of my inner searching to show by a visual media the hidden, the unreal reality in which I work. Painting for me is a process of discovery. To create a canvas has become an ongoing experience that never ends. There are always new details to look at which earlier may have been missed. There is also integrated my idea of trying to notice things that some may overlook, or take for granted, to express all my obsessions as well as the transformation that I witness around me. In fact, my work now is about how I perceive the process of time and how we live in a constant process of adding feeling, memories, perceptions, pain as well as happiness, transforming our own complexity. Each time I begin to work on a new piece, I have no conscious idea of where it will go or what part of me it will touch. Each studio session becomes in a way a time of meditation. My work is not only an intuitive process; it is an internal look exposing myself in order to provoke the viewer.

Biography

Guido Garaycochea
Biography

Garaycochea was born in Lima, Peru in 1961. Since his earlier years he was worried about histories of past time and visited churches admiring the Baroque Sacred Sculptures and Paintings inside them, while trying to understand those images of Pain and Suffering, why people around was so worry on suffering. So, they represented by Art that issue all the time. Images of Virgin Mary crying for centuries, Jesus tortured and blooding for ever at the cross...were at that point questions he could not answer. He had a close relationship with his father grandmother who lived in Arequipa, a famous southern colonial city of Perú and used to visit often with her. He paid close attention to the stories she related about how life at the beginning of the 20th Century was, and how she grew up in a convent and obviously who guilty felt her for every thing people does all time. At that point he began to understand that reality depend from the point of view.

He studied Art and Teaching of Art at the "Escuela Nacional Superior de Bellas Artes del Perú", a very strict and conservative school of beauty Art.
Guido graduated from Art School with several awards and honors. A couple of years later, he decided to moved to Chile to have a brief break and continue studying and developing his Art. The 1980’s for Perú were a strong time because of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path); Peruvian terrorists and at the beginning of the 90’s the country was virtually in a civil war. Garaycochea decided that was a good time to immigrate for at least some time to another country.
In 1992-93 he moved to Chile and resumed his studies, and spent 12 years there. He studied History of Art, Aesthetic and Theory of Art. He also taught for more than 7 years in two important Chilean Universities. ( Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion ) At the same time he had more than fifteen Solo Art Shows and more group Art Exhibitions in countries such as: Germany, Spain, Austria, Perú and Chile.

What he initially wanted to do with his paintings was to depict his historical Peruvian and South American legacy. He wanted to reveal the greatness of the pre-Colombian cultures and the incredible philosophy of life they had. He studied the funeral masks of the Chimú people, but these masks showed more about human beings in general rather than about the Chimú. Those masks and the use of some materials, like gold, showed him a new face of the human being that seduced him: "the duality of the being, that interior turmoil which exists permanently inside humanity".

Duality has been the principal theme of his work. He is trying to explore inside the depths of the human being, particularly inside himself, expressing through his visual work, his own contradictions, his own dual feelings, and also his deepest human characteristics.
When he paints, he is thinking of visual spaces, interior landscapes where freedom is given in amounts he allows to flow. He tries to invite the spectator to discover, with his use of gold, the duality of the human being that has been present throughout history. He also invites the viewer to discover fragments caused by permanent fractures in the being and to search for a balance, which obviously, will never be found.

Garaycochea moved to the United States in the Fall of 2003, to become an International Artist in Resident at The Griffis Art Center in New London, CT and later in 2005 at I-Park in East Haddam, CT. While living in New London, he developed his Art involved with the North Easter landscape. He also taught at Mitchell College and the Mystic Art Center and became an active member of many area and statewide art organizations and institutions. In the summer of 2006, Guido moved his studio to New York City, where he used to live before going back to Stonington Connecticut late 2007.

Guido and his patner Jose runs a succesful Gallery of Art nemed Latins in the Borough.

Garaycochea actually teach at Mitchell College and UCCON , sharing his time with his creative procces of painting!