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THE ARTIST<\/h1><\/span>
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Viviane Brickmanne<\/h2><\/span>
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I ask myself: Is a work of art the product of its author’s mind or perhaps just the reflection of an incomprehensible dream of beauty?\u00a0<\/em>I always look forward to transforming the object in order to reveal its unexplored depths. My classic and literary academic training is reflected in my first figurative sculptures. The\u00a0Mutants series\u00a0<\/strong>portrays stylized young girls who unsuccessfully attempt to escape the earth and reach an impossible freedom, in accordance with W. Blake’s definition: “Flight is the world’s liberty…”<\/em> I continued to develop winged figures and later on more abstract, vertical pieces, always trying to express a poetic vision of space through ascending lines that suggest flight. Decaying nature<\/strong> often inspires me. I pick up decomposing plant elements in order to capture the\u00a0 traces of passing time caused by wind, rain, soil or the human hand. I incorporate them into my working process so that they lose their vulnerability and become durable. All decomposition halts and a new sense of beauty appears that is different, unexpected. I have begun a new line of investigation in\u00a0bricks, <\/strong>a construction element that I transform to give it a new significance and appearance. At times, I introduce leaves or pomegranates\u00a0<\/strong>into the brick to create a dialogue between an architectural element which is rectangular and masculine and the plant, round and feminine. The pomegranate is a sensual element and it breaks the linear structure of the brick. Lately I am working with state-of-the-art technologies and using new materials more adapted to the idea I want to develop, considering t<\/strong>he brick as a metaphor of the vulnerability and fragility of our lives. <\/strong>Here the bricks reflect emotions,\u00a0 feelings, even suffering. I cast my works principally in bronze and aluminium.<\/p>\n<\/div>

ARTISTIC TRAINING<\/h2><\/span>
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    Atrium, academy of drawing and painting<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Brita Prinz, serigraphy workshop (silk screen painting)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Gilding\u00a0 and polychromy<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Modeling, School of ceramics, “Escuela de Cer\u00e1mica de la Moncloa” Madrid.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul>

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    CV<\/h2><\/span>
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      Belgian. Resident in Spain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Liberal Arts graduate from the University of Louvain (Belgium)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Deputy member of the Cultural Foundation Carlos de Amberes (Madrid)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul>

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