About Sylvia.
Sylvia Riquezes lives and works in Delray Beach, Florida, working in the tradition of Venezuelan kinetic art. Trained at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Art Students League of New York, she has spent more than 25 years developing a practice of sculpture, mobiles, and site-specific installation. Her work is held in the collections of the Jacobo Borges Museum and MACSI in Caracas, and has been exhibited at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum, and the Miami Art Museum, among institutions across the Americas and Europe.
Artist Statement.
Sylvia Riquezes works in the tradition of Venezuelan kinetic art, translating geometry and motion into sculpture, mobiles, and site-specific installation. At the center of her practice is the red sphere — a recurring symbol she has used for over two decades to explore life as continuous transformation. Her work turns industrial materials into meditations on permanence, artifice, and change.
She has explored many subjects but none have been quite as simplistic and complex as life.
Life is an infinite timeline as well as a collage.
Using her works as a metaphor, allows her to explore various facets of life.
She has been working with the red sphere for more than two decades, as an energetic symbol, as a metaphor of life and as a sign of what is alive and in continuous transformation.
The red sphere is the metaphor of the journey of man through life; it is life itself, the nucleus and origin of all being.
Her work takes undistinguished materials and gives them properties that exceed their intrinsic qualities.
She emphasizes their rude industrial power, trying to underline the predominance of what is industrial in a society that values the consumption, the artificial, and the imitations.
She is fascinated by the friction that is created between the objects and its shadows, between what’s fake and what’s real, as a metaphor for the tense situations in life.
In many different mediums and use of space, she explores the facets that make up life internally, externally, and in surrounding spaces.
Her work is a crafted and elaborate study of life, in its fascinating simplicity and in its beautiful complexity.
In the Studio.
