Virginia Rivas

I have exhibited individually at the WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, the El Brocense Art Gallery in Cáceres, the DA2 Domus Artium Contemporary Art Center in Salamanca or the Galleria d’Arte La Loggia di Udine. And collectively in the Sala Pazo de San Marcos de Lugo (2020), the Museum of Women of Costa Rica (2020), in the Assembly of Extremadura (2018), in the MUBA Museum of Fine Arts of Badajoz (2015) , at the Galleria d'Arte Picenum in Cingoli, Italy (2015) or at the OPTICA International Video Art Festival in Paris, France (2009).
Since 2006 I have been working as an Art Teacher in the European territory giving workshops within educational projects related to plastic and visual arts.

Regarding my work, I work with various media such as installation, video and light boxes, but the material that manages to define me is painting. I investigate form and matter through abstraction and gesture in search of a palette of my own in which textures, naive lines and short texts that move between chance and intention burst. I delve into human behavior through my own experiences as a guideline to investigate the individual-environment nexus and create a sociological, plural and contemporary discourse where I explore the relationship between the work, the viewer and the space.
I am currently immersed in a project entitled VARIATIONS in which, based on the readings and research on the different theories of color by Goethe, Newton, Eva Heller or John Berger, I analyze the surrounding chromatics and how it influences the individual based on his emotional state, the current political situation and the historical context. In parallel I am carrying out an educational project that culminates in an artistic installation under the title: ARTISTS WOMEN: 500 years, 2 decades, organized by AUPEX Association of Popular Universities of Extremadura in collaboration with the Cáceres Provincial Council.  In which I highlight the work of women artists from the 16th century to the present, with a selection of five contemporary Spanish artists: María Gimeno, Diana Larrea, Concha Mayordomo, Verónica Ruth Frías and Yolanda Domínguez who work on the concept of women , the fight for gender equality and the recognition of the female artist. And a selection of fifteen fundamental artists from our history such as Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Cassat, Alice Austen, Corita Kent or Helen Frankenthaler.
In the artistic installation that accompanies the masterclass, I recreate an interactive Art History classroom where the public can sit down to learn about the work of these artists, learning about their life and work. I hope you find my work interesting and I am grateful to have been invited to these SWS International Conferences on Arts and Humanities that are held in one of my favorite cities such as Florence.

If you want to see the rest of my work, you can do it on my website www.virginiarivas.es or through my social networks: on Instagram @virginia_rivas, on Facebook @virginiarivasartista and on twitter @virginia_rivas.

Thank you very much for your attention.
Greetings from Spain.

Images, video and texts credit: www.virginiarivas.es