Education
From 1962 to 1966, Cybèle Varela studied visual arts at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Cybele Varela
Edit ProfileCareer
She is a painter, video artist, and photographer. She began her career as a painter and sculptor, winning the Young Contemporary Art Prize at the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo in 1967 with the triptych: "Of all that could have been, but that wasn’t". The same year she exhibited for the first time at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial.
Varela was awarded a scholarship by the French government to study in Paris at the Ecole du Louvre in 1968-1969.
In 1971-1972 she stayed at the Cité Internationale des Arts, and in 1976-1978 studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. The French art critic Pierre Restany wrote “Cybèle Varela does not paint landscapes.
The utter commonplace of the mirror-image is for her nothing but a pretext”. In Geneva in the 1980s, her work focussed on themes from nature, in the 1990s it became more figurative, augmented with photography, digital printing and video, and since 2000 has moved towards popular surrealism.
In 1997, the Brazilian Government donated one of her paintings to the United Nations.
"ellescentrepompidou": National Modern Art Museum, Paris, 2009
"Outros 60"s": Museum of Contemporary Art, Curitiba, 2006
São Paulo Museum of Modern Art: 2005
National Museum of Fine Arts: Rio de Janeiro, 2003
Art Museum of the Americas: Washington District of Columbia, 1987
Sao Paulo Biennal: Brazil, 1981
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, 1980
"Mix-media": Musée Rath, Geneva, 1980
São Paulo Biennale: Brazil, 1969
São Paulo Biennal: Brazil, 1967
Museum of Modern Art: Rio de Janeiro, 1964.
-
Born
-
Nationality
Brazilian