DVAA Member since 2017
Carlos A. Gil
About:
Carlos A. Gil was born in Caracas Venezuela in 1943. He studies at the "Cristobal Rojas" School of Plastic Arts and at Pure Art Mention, with electives in Graphic Design and Photography 1956-60. He has completed residences and studies in Amsterdam, Holland, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Zaragoza, Spain from 1960-69 and Photography Courses, Photographic Society of Aragon in 1967. He has lived and worked in Philadelphia since 1994.
Artist Statement:
“Photography is not simply a representation of reality, photography is a technique that offers many possibilities for experimentation, I explore the border between painting and photography, the passage from the darkroom to the digital era enriches my possibilities of interpretation of nature from different approaches with images of the world around me, everyday things, more or less understandable, that we see, imagine or dream, reality and fantasy.
I work with the objective of exploring these visions through art, spaces, memories, altered spaces that seem and are not and appear and are shown, trying to dispel the illusion of reality created by the camera.”
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