Timelessness
by Evelyn Valdirio
Evelyn Valdirio’s work of art explores the shape and structure of the timeless world. In everyday language, enchanting, magical, derived from a spiritual realm and with lots of powerful images, Evelyn Valdirio through complex symbolisms express the logical timelessness connections to the human, social conditions and issues as slavery, racial segregation, , terrorism, religion, immigration and affirmative action, significant subject for her creativity. She poses questions of deep intellectual meanings while allowing the viewer to mediate a kind of elusive beauty. She encourages the exploration of image and surface to gaze everything that we know in time is a product of timelessness. True nature, similarly, transcends time because it is outside of our time. It contains all time, yet it possesses no temporal extension, no duration. We cannot look at it within the concept of time for time is its creation, its product.
Slavery and terrorism through the artist three dimensional paintings, has nothing to do with religion but everything to do with psychosocial factors. Radical movements are usually born out of a perception of alienation or marginalization, a brooding sense of injustice rankling in the human heart. Driven to the breaking point -- which is different for each of us-one becomes, out of sheer frustration, a terrorist, a criminal or otherwise abnormal. The answer is to be sought in a new social order: in homes and schools, not in battlefields; in parents and teachers, not in warriors; in the pen, tongue and the heart, not in the sword.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, 1964. Studies in the School of Sociology and Antrhropology, “Universidad Central de Venezuela”. Moves to Washington , D.C. and receives M.F.A., Master of Fine Art, “Catholic University of America”. She presently lives and works in Miami, Florida
Valdirio’s art is enchanting, magical, derived from a spiritual realm that is revealed to us through a soul that aspires to offset every weakness with optimism. Through complex symbolisms that are logical connections to the human and social conditions. She poses questions of deep intellectual meanings while allowing the viewer to mediate a kind of elusive beauty, often barred from today’s art. She encourages the exploration of image and surface to gaze within, as if peering into a mirror, ourselves and life’s secrets.
Valdirio maintains a firm commitment to creating works that still appeals to one’s sense of beauty and desire. They are conceptually multifaceted and technically complex. Emphasized by layers and field of colors, her work captures protagonist in dreamlike settings where memory and nostalgia reign and distant times are summoned.
Her esthetics move within the realm of design and paintings, between Architectural Digest and modern art museums. The works of Evelyn Valdirio, traverse life cycles: being born, maturity, death, but not from the succession of time, but rather its confluence.
According to Evelyn, her work is the nexus which links her need for constant communication as “human being” with her sensible relationship to the cultural and spiritual surroundings that encircle her. The interconnection established between the spectator and her oeuvre distinguishes her work as visual pleasures echoed with tonalities of conscious awareness and discernment. And, after all, that is the artist intention.
Evelyn has learned much more from the silence than from words, from a silent, subtle periphery than from the concurrence of narratives. And she has gained much by remaining in the” shadow of the silent majorities”. Valdirio’s works, from the stance of art, seem to repeat that phrase coined by Julio Cortazar in Around de Day in 80 worlds: “Man is searching the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet already knew the spells capable of lowering the moon to earth, in the end what’s the difference”.