Chary Hilu is a visual artist and art teacher who graduated from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón He obtained prizes for sketches and sculptural sketches in competitions organized by the Luis Perlotti Museum, the San Isidro Youth Hall and the SAAP de Adrogué Hall. He has participated in exhibitions including at the Borges Cultural Center, the Argentine Society of Plastic Artists in Argentina (among others) and various mosaic exhibitions in Italy.
My works are conceived as a response to the sensations, feelings and experiences caused by extreme situations. In this series, confinement, death, uncertainty, confinement, fears, the truth, the need to breathe and the feeling of oppression appear. Through them, I seek to express all the emotions and events that catch me, move me, mobilize me, what impacts me, what defines me, my sensitivity and expressiveness, the drama that I capture with my way of feeling, my vision of the world that I see and feel. I let myself be carried away in the moment of creation by dropping the barriers of reason. In collages, I use the materials that I have, or that I find, that I recycle. These works arise at the moment in which there was a break in the normality of the world as we knew it, producing a suspension of everyday life. The outbreak of the pandemic made tangible the fear of death as well as the uncertainty in the expectation of not knowing how and when this unexpected situation will end. This is what I try to reflect in the works that I present here.
Self-taught or art school?
School of arts
If you could own one work of art what would it be?
A drawing by Miguel Angel
How would you describe your style?
Expressionist
Is narrative important within your work?
Yes, I always describe scenes based on sensations and feelings or experiences.
Who are your favourite artists and why?
Miguel Angel, for his mastery of technique, Picasso for his creativity. Van Gogh for his expressiveness. Henry Moore for his innovation. Ernesto Neto for the organic nature of his forms.
What or who inspires your art?
The situations that I live, what surrounds me, what is happening
Are there any recurring themes within your work and can you tell us about them?
Right now I have been working since the pandemic started with the feelings and emotions that this situation produces in me.
Where’s your studio and what’s it like?
My study is a small room that I have inside my house.
What are you working on currently?
In a series of drawings and collages called “Presences”
Where can we buy your art?
In invite to visit my web site www.artebaires.com.ar/hilu, then you can contact me through email.
What are your ambitions?
To be able to move people who see my works
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