« Vers le ciel » (To the sky)
Gloria Li Mir
1981
80 cm x 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas strengthened and worked
The light is one of the main concerns in the work of Gloria Li Mir. The canvas is not only support for her pictures, but it is the carrier material of the light and the white as colour with all its possibilities of reflexion. Her white monochrome series are painted on strengthened canvas, often with movable elements, in order to catch the continual changing qualities of the illumination. For the same purpose she worked forms out of the canvas to create a relief.
In our example “Vers le ciel” we have both: besides the white canvas with horizontal line in light gray, there is a movable square and outworked pebbles. It may be somehow a landscape, but it is as well an abstract painting, were the incoming light is reflected. The image changes all the time, depending on the angle and intensity of the incident illumination.
Gloria Li Mir
Born in Lima, Peru, in 1943, Gloria studied Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, USA, and drawing (studio work) at the University of Stanford in California, USA. Until 1975 she lived and worked in Guatemala-City, and then in the region of Nice, France. From 1993 to 1998 she travelled and worked in the United States and in Guatemala. 1998 Gloria returned to Nice, and since 1999 has lived and worked in Vallauris, France.
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