Raquel, how were your beginnings in art?
After many years of raising my four children, plus two nephews, I began to get involved in the world of Art. I was attracted to the forms where both the empty and the full dialogued.
I started in ceramics with Ingeborg Ringer, then with the sculptors Óscar Stáfora, Edgardo Madanes and finally Leo Vinci, a great master. All of them very generous in the transmission of their knowledge.
It is a law of life that as my children got older, I was able to have more time to explore and find my own path in art. Through different forms I was able to capture different moments of my life. I found that as a woman my inspiration stemmed from my feminine sensibilities.
I started presenting in competitions and winning some prizes, this flattered me and motivated me to continue. On one occasion, one of my grandchildren went with the school to the Cervantes National Theater where some of my works were exhibited. He said: “These sculptures were made by my grandmother.” The next day the teacher called me to see if it was true!
What are the resources you use to make your works and what inspires you to carry them out?
I feel a great attraction for different materials. I work with wood, stones, clay, resin, metal powders, aluminum, copper, iron, bronze and epoxy.
I love what I do, I enjoy it, I play and I can capture moments of my life.
Everything serves as an expiration for me, from a boy playing in the street, a smile or a tree.
First I make the sculpture in clay, then I make the mold with plaster, when it dries after a washing and waxing process, later I add the solid materials. This is how I make all kinds of figures. As I put them together, more ideas come to mind.
Everything I do is in 3 Dimensions. I review it in all its sectors. It gives me satisfaction when I like what I do and it anguishes me if something doesn’t turn out the way I want.
In addition, at night I have images in my dreams and then I transcribe them on paper. That inspires me.
Joaquín is also a fundamental part, since he helps me with my works.
Where did you exhibit your works of art?
I exhibited in Buenos Aires, Punta del Este, Cuba, Miami ART BASEL, Carrusel del Museo del LOUVRE and soon at the Florence Biennale 2023, in Italy.
Contact information:
Mail: [email protected]
Phone: 1155777997
Raquel Chomer does not lie. As an artist she knows that she has the privilege of working with her emotions. That is why her images radiate the fullness of living, of experiencing movement, of dancing for the love of life. Her sculptures can be made of copper, bronze, aluminum or ceramic. They can be supported on a pedestal or displayed suspended in space. But they will always have a silence around them, because they are expressing a wisdom that comes not only from knowledge of the material, but also from their life experience.
There are in them moments of happiness or threatened happiness. That is why they stretch, they contort, they are moved, because Raquel went through many of those situations.
Pablo Picasso said: “Sculpture is the art of intelligence.” Hence, contemplating the works of Raquel Chomer provokes a moment of reflection, a dialogue between the construction of the form and the intensity of her expression. Today Raquel has defined her style and intensely communicates a particular sculptural language. Her works stand out for a full formal synthesis, exacerbated by the search for new approaches, without complexities.
In the modeling passed to resin with aluminum, it summarizes an entire linguistic unit and its conceptual ideology becomes evident.
Julius Sapolnik
Degree in History of Arts UBA Master in Argentine Culture, Scholarship by Fulbright Commission and by the International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York. He was Director of the Palais de Glace. Former art critic in the newspaper Clarín and Page 12. He collaborates with the magazine “Arte al Limite” of Chile, and in the publications of Institutional Editions. Seven books published.
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by CEDOC