Press Release from Exhibition at Amos Eno Gallery NY 2005

Aviva Sawicki looks for a closer approach to her most profound physical and psychological needs in her artistic work. This matter brings her to develop new forms of expression finding very creative and different solutions for each one of them. With these thoughts and emotions transferred to her own manufactured paper she exhibits at the Amos Eno Gallery a series of three works named “Open me up”.

These are three objects which show realistic images under a cover which looks like a textile design. You can open and close them as you would do with a diary, or any other personal object which you can catch a glimpse of.

In 1996 Aviva started working on recycled paper introducing flower petals, colored ribbons, metallic and plastic pieces of paper and cloth in the pulp. These elements which are part of our daily life are used today by the artist as color and texture becoming an essential part of her work, she needs them to complement what she wants to visualize, allowing each element, each piece to answer her own creative intention.

Her interest in history and human nature takes her to use man traces on nature like a print which stays forever, indelible in her work. Her paper almost mistreated under the use of paint, brushes, and water persists without giving truce to her duty in the hard work of finding the exact tint, which is probably as subjective as her own work

Her constant search in transmitting feelings can almost be read as the biography of an artist who metaphorically writes her own diary through visual images. She admits that she learns about her own experiences once she looks at her finished works.

Aviva Sawicki has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Chile. Her work has been also appreciated in Israel, Germany and Argentina.