CARLA GIMBATTI Argentina, b. 1975

Overview
CARLA GIMBATTI
I am drawn towards nature; I take something from it, a texture, an image, a color and try to expand upon it. I seek to observe, live, register so that later I create works with another materiality. How to bring nearer remote and beautiful places? How to share them? In life, I encounter landscapes, patterns, bodies. Immense places, tiny details. Repeating patterns with perfectly imperfect geometries. Both in nature and in our bodies what we have experienced is engraved, and the context to which they and we were exposed. Ancient sediments, one layer after another, telling us what happened on our planet. Our hands register in their palm our stories. I strive to make visible everything we have in common and what differentiates us in our structures. To find an excuse to feel, touch, imagine landscapes that hypnotize, communicate and alert us.
Biography
CARLA GIMBATTI

After graduating from university in Argentina, with a background in economy, Carla Gimbatti began working with disadvantaged women and children, many of whom were living on the streets. While volunteering in a project that used art therapy, she was inspired by the power of art to help express, achieve and heal. She attended Photography, Painting and Sculpture workshops in Buenos Aires that allowed her to start a new path. After moving to New York, Gimbatti studied at the Art Students League in New York. She then participated in a Painting Certificate Program at the New York Studio School from 2016-2017.Her Sculptural work is a result of her fascination with Nature and experimentation with materials.

Currently she has studios in New York and Buenos Aires.

Contact in a remote context, almost inaccessible, allows me to invent, to go towards a new way and to later inhabit everyday spaces and moments through my work. Travelling is part of my research. Experiences, sketches, an open studio, a laboratory; I go outside and go back to the inside. Other times it takes the opposite direction, it is born in the studio and I look for it to come out, always generating a new path. Molds, modules, individual pieces in various materials that, together, create different shapes that expand the field of what is possible. Fragmentation as a starting point for a continuous, permanent expansion.

 

 

2022 - de-formas l Group show at Galería Cecilia Caballero l Bs As, Argentina.

2020 - Verano en la ciudad l Group show at Galería Cecilia Caballero l Bs As, Argentina.

2020 - Founder & CEO of TE CUENTO. Storytelling project for children & elderly. www.tecuentolugano.com

2019 - Acertijos l Espacio Modos l Bs As, Argentina.

2019 - Collection MMXIX l Dobbs Ferry l New York, USA.

2018 - MATRIX Show l ChaShaMa Foundation l New York, USA.

2018 - The World In Our Hands l ChaShaMa Foundation l New York, USA.

2018 - Galeria de Arte Solidario l Mishkan Cultural Center l Bs As, Argentina.

2017 - Explora l New York Studio School l New York, USA.

2015 - Emergente l Haus Collective l Group Show l San Antonio Texas, USA.

2015 - Artemisa Gallery l Summer Group Show l Chelsea, New York, USA.

 
Installation shots