About the blossoming with Lilian Siola

19/07/2018 Lívia Fernandes

Lilian Siola was born in Porto Alegre, but has lived in São Paulo since she was 15 years old. She works with art since 2007, having already passed through drawing, photography and painting; currently, she uses digital processes in her creations.

Like other artists, Lilian found the art (or the opposite?) in troubled times, using it as an escape valve, and has not left it ever since. Reflection and contemplation are important stages in the artist’s process, which ratifies colors, diversity and forms as motivational components of her art.

The beauty of Lilian’s artwork, through the delicacy of her flowers in the midst of a world governed by human constructions, brings us a simple and beautiful reflection: the care with the detail, the richness emphasized in everyday life and the preservation of what we still have. May the subtlety of nature, even muffled by concrete and rebar, bring joy to our gaze, and then we can remember and understand the artistic flourish of Lilian Siola.

“The drive to create my art is the wonderful exercise of creative activity that distracts me from everyday afflictions. The creative process demands of me observation and reflection upon the colors, the set and the aesthetics of the image that I want to obtain.

Follow the words of the artist:

When I started the photographic activity, I decided to give myself to the flowers. One of my motivations is the need to take care of the planet, so I use the themes of air, water, energy and the optimization of the use of these natural resources. I found in the flowers that unfold incessantly through the streets and avenues of São Paulo an intense and rich material, it is the green and colorful of the plants immersed in the street, the sidewalks and the concrete of the houses and the buildings. However, the flowers with their delicacy and vivacity always attract and awaken my look to what will be a beautiful, pleasant and enchanting heart.

Monet is passionate. The influence of Von Martius, a German physician and botanist who illustrated the Brazilian flora, came with the beginning of solo exhibitions in 2008, such as those that took place at several CPTM train stations and the Martius-Staden Institute. Today I like the illustrators Cécile Dormeau, Ale Giorgini and the sisters Agathe and Lorraine Sorlet. My watercolors are prepared through digital technology, moment in which I also make an intervention in the image, preparing it for the enlargement in the paper fine art. In March, 2018, I participated with “Pink Piece” at the ArtBox Project New York 1.0, during the art arsenal week at Stricoff Gallery, New York.

From the flowering tree, or from the flower itself, I can imagine abundant and happy feelings, feel the tenderness of the petals, the harmony and joy of the various colors on the same piece of land, verify the full potential and success of flowering. An intense living in a short time. The reflection is about life, about behaviors, tenderness, positive and loving attitudes, about society and a better world. So it is in the flowers of the day, near or not of some construction, that it is possible to see the diversity and the respect. Blossoming every day is the desired attitude. “

Lilian Siola brings us the reflection of how a running life, currently lived, makes us overlook the details and beauties that are all around us. Having a close look, stopping for a moment and observing our environment, reflecting on our behavior, customs and practices are ways to rebuild ourselves, what motivate us to seek good things and positive attitudes with people and the environment that surrounds us.

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