Take a look at the video Atravesando el Vacío, latest Elena Nieves' exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 2007.

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The stolen line

The profuse scenes of Elena Nieves are luxuriant in a strange way. Because here the surface vibrates, deepens and dissolves fragmented by the detailed combination of reticles and linear fibrillations such as by the absence, the interruption of the stroke, the whiteness of the intact paper. The landscape that arrives through the writing of a graphic foliage recalling some bright epiphany; somewhat blinding, arising from a strictly visual nature, in a perpetual burning midday, is at the verge of making all this world to dissolve in paper light, before the impressive presence of what is not drawn, while the heroic lines fight for making it yet visible. At the same time, right there, overflying this uneven constellation, unexpected cuttings, with a deliberately underlined outline, deceitfully harmonic, return to guarantee, in an unstable contrast of proportions, the paradox of absence and sense.
They are like an enlargement of details of the whole scene that seem to focus on the volatility of the shapes that slip through the shapes, rarefying the status of all the remaining notations of the image while, exactly, completing their final importance. Other motives advance towards the inside of the surface; misty curtains that build the escenographic depth of the field with a fantastic use on the part of the artist of the most literal transparency –they are drawings built by two or three superimposed layers of translucent paper- each one of them contributing with an epidermis layer to the thick and ephemeral body of the visual story as a fog of ink and paper.
Like in the well-known irony of “The purloined letter” of Edgar Allan Poe, in Elena Nieves drawings, what we believe we do not see, what we get desperate to find, is what is more visible.

Eduardo Stupía, 2007

ELENA NIEVES  was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 16th 1967.
She studied Arts and graduated from the National School of Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredon” in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and she advanced in her development focusing on painting and drawing under the expert tutelage of the artists Luis Felipe Noé, Eduardo Stupía, Juan Astica and Roberto Elía.
Since 1994 works as the personal assistant of the Argentinean painter Luis Felipe Noè.
Mrs. Nieves lives and works in Buenos Aires; nevertheless, she travels periodically to Europe, particularly to Italy where she is invited to exhibit her work in 2005 and 2006 by the Artestudio Clocchiatti Gallery, in the city of Udine.

2005 Salón Pampeano de Artes Plásticas, Third Prize, category “Drawing”, Museo Provincial de Arte de Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina.

2004 1st Prize World Theater - Puppet Design  to the play Teodoro y la Luna, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1999 Special Scholarship from the Gobierno de la República Argentina to Cultural Excellency in Fine Arts.

1995 Honorable Mention in the category Young Argentine Arts Award, Deutsche Bank, Argentina.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 Amores Infinitos, Beckett Gallery , Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Miradas desde el erotismo, Freudian School of Argentina.

2001 Paraísos encontrados, Milión Art Space, Buenos Aires. Argentina.

1998 Pinturas y Dibujos, Barbaro, Buenos Aires. Argentina

1996 Aire del Agua,  Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires 

PARTICIPATION IN ART CONTESTS

2005 Third International Drawing Biennial Exhibition “Josep Amat”, Sain Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
Deloitte Prize for Painting, Museo Caraffa de Córdoba; Museo Rosa Galisteo Rodríguez, Santa Fe; Museo Municipal Gregorio Álvarez, e Neuquén; Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Salón Pampeano de Artes Plásticas,  Museo de Arte de Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina.

2001 5th Edition of the "Fundación Octubre" Awards, Margarita Xirgu Theater, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2000 Hebraica Award, Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, Buenos Aires.

1995 Argentine Young Artist Award, painting. Deutsche Bank. Modern Art Museum. Buenos Aires. Argentina.

1994 Award Hommage Exhibition to Joan Miró, organized by MAFRE Aconcagua Compañía de Seguros. Mar del Plata - Buenos Aires.

1993 Biennial of Young Arts , Predio de la Sociedad Rural Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.