GARDANIORIGINAL OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS"TOE SHOE" BALLERINA SATIN SHOESImage Size: 12" x 12"GARDANI Artist's Statement: “My art is a celebration of beauty in the SIMPLE Things. Celebrate the harmony in slow-motion of the beauty andperfection of a women figure. 
That significant emotion inmy conscious mind take place while materialization of that feeling through any medium in my artwork”. EDUCATIONPrimarily self taught Artist.Residency, Florence- ItalyThe Art School Work, Miami, Fl. Painting / SculptureCenter for the Media Arts, NY, NY. Direction - Production of Movies & TV.University Tecnologica Equinoccial, Quito, Ecuador-PublicityUniversity Central, Quito, Ecuador – Architecture Born in Quito-Ecuador. - U.S.A. CitizenGardani's childhood was spent in his hometown. Before he graduated fromHigh School, his gypsy spirit and love for adventure took him every summer to travelto neighborhood countries.He studied at different Universities, Architecture and Publicity. Always having beendrawn to the world of Arts and being independent. Gardani started working andexperimenting with different materials and techniques, on his Paintings and Sculptures.Entirely self-taught, he had his first solo exhibition in his native, Quito, (1987).It's when he realized, that is what he wants to do for the rest of his life.He knows to fulfill that dream he had to leave his problematic political country.He traveled to Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, until finally he ended upin the U.S. in 1989. He lived in California, Chicago, New York and Miami and still livingbetween the last two cities. He had continued traveling to Brazil, England, Italy, France,China, Honduras, Puerto Rico… in order to visit the major Art Museums. He believesthat is the best school to learn the higher expressions of Art.Gardani, still remains true to his initial spirit of enjoying Art in the Magic Realism form,which he has been practicing for more than twenty years. Even though some of hispaintings come from his mind; he prefers to work with models.Gardani has the ability to present works of allegory, still-life, fruit, horses, pets,contemporary abstracts and his well known figurative paintings. The artwork of thisArtist has been shown in Galleries in the United States Central and South America.His artworks are in Prestigious Collections around the world. He has been commissionedfor many private collectors.As a Latino Artist of Spanish Heritage, he reflects in his Paintings the techniques fromthe old masters and the magic of all the places he has lived with the wide variety ofcultures he's experienced. This has undoubtedly given him the richness in his senseof life and the will to celebrate it through his artwork

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