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    Claudia Gama

    Born in Brazil in 1959 and currently living in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Having a humanities background, she studied arts at the studios of renowned artists and professors Felix Alejandro Barrenechea Avilez (Peru) and Bisser Nai/Naydenov Hristov (Bulgaria). She lived in many different countries that contributed to her artistic maturity. Art for her is life in continuous movement. Paintings are her own expression of a synaesthetic world in which movement and energy have colour, texture and frequency. Music is one of the most inspiring elements in her work.

    Claudia transcribes the rhythm, intensity and expression of music into art. Her compositions in many ways articulate themselves as the equilibrium of chaos, harmonic yet charged with complexity and vitality. The media most commonly used in Claudia’s artwork is enamel, usually on canvas but sometimes on paper or cardboard. She also works with mixed media on different surfaces.

    Exhibitions:

    2006

     November 2006

    • Group Exhibition Visual Arts – Panorama Brasília, Art Museum of Brasilia – MAB, Brazil;
    • Solo Exhibition – Centro Cultural Bulgaro, Barcelona, Spain (Curator and Director Bisser Nai);

    2007

    September 2007

    • Group Exhibition – Art Sans Frontières, Château de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland;

    2008

    March 2008

    • Solo Exhibition – Cultural Gallery of Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília, Brazil;


    September 2008

    • Solo Exhibition – Metropolitan Cultural, Brasília, Brazil;


    October 2008

    • Group Exhibition – Art Sans Frontières, Chavannes-de-Bogis, Vaud, Switzerland;


    November 2008

    • Group Exhibition – Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic;

    2009

    March/April 2009

    • Solo Exhibition – Zumbi dos Palmares Cultural Gallery, Chamber of Deputies, Brasília, Brazil;


    September 2009

    • Group Exhibition – Gallery of the Superior Court of Justice, Brasília, Brazil;


    October/November 2009

    • Group Exhibition – Evolution Art Expo Geneva, Art Sans Frontières – Geneva, Switzerland;


    November 2009

    • Group Exhibition – Metropolitan Cultural, Brasília, Brazil;

    • Philanthropic auction at the Brasília National Museum, Brazil;


    December 2009

    • Group Exhibition – Art Museum of Londrina – Paraná, Brazil;

    • II Biennale of Arts of Brasília, Brazil;

    2010

    January 2010

    • VIII Biennale D’Arte Internazionale di Roma, Castelo Sant’Angelo, Italy;


    March 2010

    • Group Exhibition – Assis Chateaubriand Gallery, Brasília, Brazil;


    May 2010

    • Group Exhibition – Casa Thomas Jefferson Gallery, Brasília, Brazil;

    2011

    May 2011

    • Group Exhibition – Brick Lane Gallery, London, United Kingdom;

    2013

    October 2013

    • Group Exhibition – Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France;


    November 2013

    • Philanthropic auction, House of Commons Dinner, London, United Kingdom;

    2016

    Group exhibition – Chateau de Penthes – Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland

    2017

    March 2017

    • Group Exhibition – Galeria Bessa Pereira – Lisbon, Portugal;

    2018

    June 2018

    • Solo Exhibition – Galleri Studio Fyra Ärstider – Stockholm

    Prize:

    Golden Medal – VIII Biennale D’Arte Internazionale di Roma, Castelo Sant’Angelo, Italy, January 2010.

    Testimonials:

    Claudia Gama’s paintings reveal strong chromatic expression and precise graphic composition. This relationship between the rational basis and the individual gesture creates an intriguing and instigating dialogue with several modern artists.  However,  what captures my attention is the peculiar way in which the notion of space explored in her work relates to our capital,  Brasilia.  While Brasilia’s initial urban planning design is structured along rationalist lines and the arquitecture thereupon developed has strong subjective,  baroque and even surrealist appeals,  the chromatic base in Claudia’s paintings creates an orientating and balanced spatiality and her gestures come about in a vigorous,  spontaneous and elaborate way.   The  symbiosis between two complementary – and not antagonistic – processes of the human being’s essence ensures Claudia’s work the precise balance between sensitivity,  intelligence and beauty that today,  more than ever,  makes itself necessary in art and life.

    Marcus de Lontra Costa

    By looking at Claudia Gama’s paintings we begin to enter a world of   colors,  bursting with dreams, that is gradually defined in our artistic  scenario almost as an exception, even a symbolic one, of a sensitive follower that presents herself as a true and talented Brazilian painter.  Ye s, there is also rhythm in Claudia Gama’s paintings. It can be seen in the strength  of colors,  in the interconnected spaces and in the distances that are always  articulated,  never conflicting,  but that express solidarity in the beauty of each  painting.  In emotion there have been coincidences among works of art –  in painting,  mainly, with poetry,  literature, music and dance.  The examples are  many and impressive.  And yes, it is worth feeling the melodious beauty of  Claudia Gama’s paintings.

    Ruy Pereira