about my work
What drives my work is all the beauty in our world, through my it I create magical realms inspired by animals, fantasy, love, nature and music. I started very young creating cartoons. I always knew I was going to paint forever; I always liked the idea of creating something that didn’t exist, an illusion that has kept in constant evolution showing up through this concept of fantasy that is always present in my work.
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Many have created these surreal worlds like Hogwarts, Wonderland and Neverland to escape in them and to get others to enjoy them as well. Fantastic characters between the real and unreal that invite our imagination to take control and leave the ordinary for a minute to immerse in this magical places. There comes a time in our life when we grow up, where we lose curiosity, imagination and wonder, as if this part of ourselves was paralyzed, making it impossible to imagine beyond what we know to be real, adulthood, I like to think I still can. It’s a constant exploration.
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I admire the animal kingdom, haute couture, i’m obsessed with their preservation and well being. I love to give them personalities, I like to think I can create my own language allowing me to express my my obsessions.
Painting has always had something to do with saving memories that we don't want to disappear, to transcend. Many times there is this tension, between the desire to capture the presence of someone I love and the desire to transform it into something that relates it to my present.
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Painting for me feels like writing a song, you´re telling a story. I feel it is poetic, melancholic and full of symbolism.
about me
Roberta Lobeira Alanis was born June 25th of 1979 in Monterrey Nuevo Leon. She went to college at the University of Monterrey has a Bachelor's degree in Arts. After that she continued her studies in New York where she studied at the New York Academy of Art & School of Visual Arts. In Paris she studied with artist Oli Nicole, In Oaxaca she studied with artist Marco Antonio Bustamante. After that she decided to be in Mexico City for a long period of time to explore and improve her technique interacting and collaborating with different artists. Later on until this DAY SHE SETTLED FOR A FEW YEARS IN CALIFORNIA AND IS NOW BASED IN MADRID.
Roberta is not trying to discover a new style, she simply changes it the way her mind works through her eyes. She transforms her paintings on her canvas with natural beauty full of light, color and energy. It reminds us the magic realism, taking our breathe with the vivid colors and beauty.Her peace of work is a tribute to this magic life, to the ideal world of natural beauty and fantastic elements bringing them to real life by using bright and vivid colors which will bold the differences between them. Her goal is to show in her work freedom, magic, dreams and subcontinent phenomenons by creating adventurous atmospheres of wild dreams breaking the fine line between the real and the unreal substituting one for the other.
Real will become wonderful, fantastic and ideal. The crash between a dream and reality, an absolute realness full of symbolism were it will become marvelous, full of light and life where the spectator will want to be part of these forms and colors. Using elements of real time combined with the past and the future and bringing it to the contemporary. Now the old will become modern and at the same time it will transmit authenticity, braveness and vanguard. She creates a wonderful wolrd where color and nature steal the spotlight.
Roberta Lobeira Alanis, nació el 25 de junio de 1979 en Monterrey Nuevo Leon. Estudió la carrera artes en la Universidad de Monterrey y con distintos particulares.Vivió en Nueva York ( New York academy of art & School of visual arts), Paris (pintor Oli Nicole), Oaxaca (pintor Marco Antonio Bustamante)y México DF por largas temporadas explorando y aprendiendo mas sobre su tecnica con distintos pintores para después establecerse en San Diego California.
Roberta no descubre el hilo negro pero lo cambia de color con su paleta. Lo teje de maneras inimaginables que transforman los trazos sobre sus lienzos en naturalezas vivaces llenas de luz, color y energía. Nos recuerda el realismo mágico, sacándonos suspiros por su colorido, dinamismo y belleza. Su obra es un tributo a la magia de la vida, al mundo ideal lleno de naturaleza viva y elementos fantásticos e incongruentes sacados de su contexto trayéndolos al mundo real, utilizando colores vivos y brillantes que hacen resaltar las diferencias entre si. Intenta plasmar magia. libertad, sueños, patrones y fenómenos del subconsciente, creando un una atmósfera mágica ,de sueños y cotidianidad quebrantando las fronteras entre lo real y lo irreal ubicando cada uno de estos en lugar del otro.
Lo real se volvera fantástico, maravilloso, ideal. El encuentro de un sueño con la realidad, en una especie de realidad absoluta, llena de simbolismo ,donde lo real se volvera maravilloso llenos de luz y vida creándolo a travez del color haciendo que el espectador quiera agarrar y sentir los colores y las formas. Utilizando elementos del tiempo actual donde los elementos de otras épocas son traídos a lo contemporáneo, ahora lo antiguo es lo moderno, lo vintage¨, que transmite a su vez vanguardia, autenticidad y atrevimiento.
Crea un mundo fabuloso dónde el color y la naturaleza viva son los protagonistas.
