His works are not only alluring canvases, papers and objects; they are above all visual reflections on the nature of the world, which they draw from the history of art and philosophical thought from different corners of the globe.
Let's imagine art that combines formal, precise considerations of composition, color, rhythm with references to German mysticism and the world of music. This is how Fernando Varela, a great South American abstractionist, creates his canvases.
The Polish audience was able to see Fernando Varela's work as part of last year's Hotel Warszawa Art Fair. Shown in the intimate space of one of the hotel rooms, geometric compositions of figures as if caught in motion opened one of the gallery exhibitions. - Oh, Maria Jaremianka - you could hear from visitors. Except that the vibrated ultramarine used by Varela at first glance places the artist's canvases far from Central European art practices. - Oh, Jan Tarasin - said the collectors who looked at the presented Varela catalogs. They reproduced paintings based on modules and spatial forms with variable shapes, placed next to each other like musical notation. Except that Varela's abstract figures - again - are more like notes from methodical studies, and do not have an impressive character. So - dictators to the side. Fernando Varela's art works perfectly in various geographical and historical contexts.
Varela began his artistic path in the years when the world of art was just overturning the visual and political order. The artist was born in 1951 in Uruguay's Montevideo (today he lives and lives in the Dominican Republic) and considers a trip to New York, which he made in the second half of the 1970s, to be one of his formative experiences.
