Cybèle Varela

Cybèle Varela
Born	1943 (age 80–81) Brazilian
Known for	Painting, Video art, Photography

Cybèle Varela (born 1943,

artist. She is a painter, video artist, and photographer.

Career

From 1962 to 1966, Cybèle Varela studied visual arts at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.^[1]

She began her career as a painter and sculptor, winning the Young Contemporary Art Prize at the

Varela was awarded a scholarship by the French government to study in Paris 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”.^{[This quote needs a citation]}

In Geneva in the 1980s, her work focussed on themes from nature, in the 1990s it became more

.

In 1997, the Brazilian Government donated one of her paintings to the United Nations.

Exhibitions (selected)

• "elles@centrepompidou": 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 DC, 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

References

Sources and further reading

• Benezit, E. Dictionary of Artists. Paris : Grund, 2006.
• Cavalcanti, Carlos and Ayala, Walmir (ed). Dicionario brasileiro de artistas plasticos. Brasilia : MEC/INL, 1973–1980.
• Cybèle Varela : peintures, 1960-1984: Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Frederico Morais, Jean-Luc Chalumeau and Pierre Restany. Geneva : Imprimerie Genevoise S.A., 1984.
• Cybèle Varela, Surroundings. Rio de Janeiro, MNBA, 2003.
• Cybèle Varela. Bruno Mantura and Cybèle Varela. Rome : Gangemi, 2007.
  ISBN 978-88-492-1226-6
  .
• Jost, Karl (ed). Künstlerverzeichnis der Schweiz, 1980-1990. Zürich : Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 1991.
• Leite, José Roberto Teixeira. Dicionario critico da pintura no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro : Artlivre, 1988.
• Leite, José Roberto Teixeira. 500 anos da pintura brasileira. CD-Rom, LogOn, 2000.
• Pontual, Roberto. Dicionario das artes plasticas no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro : Civilizaçao Brasileira, 1969.
• Restany, Pierre (ed.), Les Hyperréalistes. Évreux : Centre culturel international de Vascoeuil, 1974.

External links

• Official site
• Itau Cultural's Encyclopedia of Brazilian Art Archived 2012-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Cybèle Varela Biography, Itaú Cultural, Brazil; retrieved 27 March 2011.