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CeLINa CLaVIJo

Born in la Paz, Bolivia
lives and works in Moriyama, Japan

Celina Clavijo has a connection to Japan, which is intimate and familiar. This contact has signified changes
for her but not abandonment of methodical rigidity. To the traditional formal and mental discipline of artis-
tic production, she has added a sense of free interpretation of aesthetic sensibility and the development of
process. The frozen instant, a reinstitution of imperturbable contemplation of an object, when eye and mind
become one, is tantamount to Clavijo’s method of work. Her norm speaks of the Japanese influence and exclu-
des uncontrolled impulses and the more visceral spontaneity that so often overcomes the nature of western
people. But together with the traditional discipline, there is a vibrancy in her art that helps to make her work
more comprehensible. The impenetrability of her particular way of working with color and express tendencies
of drawing, albeit controlled, reveals a combination of artistic languages that do not oppose each other but
complement. (PedrO ALBerTO CrUz “LA VerdAd”, MUrCIA, /FrAgMenT)
COld TaIda, 1997 deeP etching, sugAr liFt, viscosity Printing 9 x 9 cM. / 3½ x 3½ in. 
CaCTUs, 1997 deeP etching, itAglio And viscosity Printing 20 x 20 cM. / 8 x 8 in. 
 aMa zarasHII, 1999 deeP etching, sugAr liFt viscosity Printing 21 x 19,5 cM. / 8¼ x 7¾ in.
 lIlY, 1994 deeP etching, itAglio And viscosity Printing 7,5 x 7,5 cM. / 3 x 3 in.

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