Sophia Vari - Le Désir de la Forme

About

Vari, a leading contemporary artist working in a variety of artistic media from oil painting to watercolour collage, will present works that incorporate a complex sense of space and volume, originating from soft, intertwined lines and created from materials such as marble and gilded bronze.

In the mid-1970s, the artist commenced her career in painting and gained international recognition. She later chiefly dedicated her artistic life to sculpting because, she commented: “I want to touch, I want the volume, I want to be able to work around my work, I want to create into a space, to prove what I created really does exist. Discovering these things, I began to feel my own existence.” Vari has also exhibited various celebrated jewellery lines from the UK to New York City, which have become known as portable or wearable sculptures.

The globetrotting Greek artist has presented her artworks in museums all around the world and will now embark upon the journey of presenting her sculptures in London. With the artworks in this exhibition, the artist wished to ‘imbue shapes and colour, even their geometry, with human qualities, within a spatial context.’  The sculptures, which were created from marble, bronze and gilded bronze, haven taken abstract forms, as with her jewellery. Figures are reduced to strong geometric shapes and highlight the contrasts between straight and curved lines.

Form and consistency are recognisably underlined in Sophia Vari’s monumental sculptures. They allure shape and colour and allude to abstract explorations of form and structure as expressed by past protagonists of modern art, who, in corresponding situations, also followed kindred creative inspiration by employing essential forms and metaphors of the human body. The strong pictorial elements of Vari’s sculptures were inspired by her extensive knowledge of traditional art forms and their history.

It is important to note that despite the diverse nature of Sophia Vari’s art, the works were not only dictated by intellectual or dogmatic rules. The foundation of her art is mostly and deeply spiritual. Her artistic inspiration is derived from the universal law of creation: that which we perceive through experience.

Works by Sophia Vari are the product of extensive experimentations geared towards the discovery of the unknown and subsequent implementation thereof into new shapes. These efforts appear virtually palpable in her sculptures. The resulting elegant and abstract explorations of form and structure express commitment as well as compassion; Vari’s work is based on the difference between what can be sensed and what can be seen.

About ContiniArtUK:

Opened in May 2014, ContiniArtUK is a new five thousand square foot gallery space set over two floors in the heart of Mayfair, Central London. The gallery, on New Bond Street, exhibits both contemporary and modern art. Le Désir de la Forme will be shown alongside a permanent collection of works from artists represented by ContiniArtUK. Artists include Mario Arlati, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Fernando Botero, Teresa Emanuele, Enzo Fiore, Enrico Ghinato, Robert Indiana, Igor Mitoraj, Fabrizio Plessi, Giuseppe Veneziano and Helidon Xhixha.

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