Paula Leiva Granger

Santiago de Chile, 1961
Vive en Barcelona desde 1974

Chumbera, acuarela sobre papel y tinta china, 110,5 x 78 cm enmarcada

El espejo, acuarela sobre tela, 130 x 60 cm

Licenciada en Bellas Artes (Pintura, Procedimientos Murales y Revestimientos, Calcografía (grabado) y serigrafía por la Escuela Massana (Barcelona).

Graduada en Artes Aplicadas, especialidad en Pintura Mural por la LA LLOTJA, Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos de Barcelona.

Paula Leiva ha participado en exposiciones individuales y colectivas en España, Chile, Alemania y EEUU.

“Refinement, chromatic exquisiteness, formal simplicity, compositional liberty, flattened perspective, emptiness as an aesthetic value, seasonal mutation…are the classical attributes of painting that Paula Leiva adapts to her own artistic restlessness, to her idea of beauty and the passage of time.

Gold leaf papers the background over which delicate fruit and vegetable compositions are framed, sending us back to the traditional Japanese decorative painting.
Atemporality, symbolised in the golden surface, embraces non-permanence and the cyclic expression of nature. In reference to the depictions of dreaming women with jet-black hair, which contrasts with their ivory or lightly tanned flesh, we are reminded of another Japanese pictorial genre, the bijin-garepresentations of geishas and courtesans in boudoir scenes.

These are urban figures from a flowing world, where the daily gesture bespeaks a certain existential retreat draws us into an emotional impasse, in moments of idleness where the void is filled with emotional intensity.”

Written by Anna Adell, Setdart.com