Mudar Idioma: 
The Artist
exceeDANCE
It knocks on the door depriving me of sleep, creating anguish.
At the very moment I allow myself to let the impulse flow and surrender to my essence, I pour all my sensitiveness through force, sculpting; overcoming the rigidity of material, or caressing clay, creating harmonic and winding shapes. I watch the turn of rough into elegance.
Through sport I got to know my body. I tested it in several modalities, exhaustive training, always seeking to overcome my own limits.
Flexibility, asanas, torsions.
Body taken to another level.
Surpassing and suffering.
Intoxicating adrenalin and endorphin.
Lesions.
The excess.
Learning in the flesh.
But art didn’t silence. It kept pulsating inside me asking for liberation.
That was when I realized I couldn’t keep silent.
Words materialized through the hands. Intense action abstracting my thoughts into shapes.
My visions and restlessness into something tangible, visible, real.
My sincere essence comes up.
Subtleness from the soul that reveals itself; in bodies sometimes defined, or just suggested.
Shapes that express tension, the drama of existence and the quest for balance.
Followed by the moment of relief and gratitude.
The qualification in fine arts revealed itself as the unfailing choice.
Feeling of magnanimity took over me.
With faith in God, I follow my Truth.
Paula Delmanto
Quest for the essencePaula Delmanto’s sculptures have delicacy as a unique element. When she devotes, for example, to the human form, there is lightness and grace in the manner of dealing with the forms, which follow a complex path of lines and points to the dynamism not only of matter, but of living itself.
Human beings can appear in poses or singular positions, in a curious combination between the effort to exist and an acceptance of acridity and affliction. That doesn’t mean resignation or melancholy, but poetics characterized by the effort to survive as a primordial element.
There is a certain irony, at times, in this search for a distinct or unusual look. The language used does not abandon the masters and also does not reject them. They’re there as a starting point for the construction of personal poetics, in which the simplest solutions would hinder the pleasure of challenge.
Certain contortions of the bodies and surroundings with the abstraction are natural results of the walk in search of the essence. It’s in the fragmentation and deformation that interpretative liberties get consistence to build an own personal universe, ruled by the conviction that experimenting is the way to reach continuous refinement.
Oscar D’Ambrosio is a master in Fine Arts by the Unesp Art Institute and doctor at the Education, Art and Culture History Program of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, (2013).
He is a member of the Brazilian Section of the International Art Critics Association.
Biography
Paula Delmanto is a Plastic Artist, has a degree from FAAP, with courses at MUBE, MAM and passionate about sculptures since childhood.
With works exhibited in Art Halls and Galleries of São Paulo, Paris, New York and UN Headquarters, the artist has as a differential dealing with the forms smoothly, which follow a complex of lines and points to the dynamism not only of matter, but of life itself.
The artist conceived and produced the first artistic intervention at Vila Olímpia. The monument titled “RÍTMICA GENÉTICA GLOBAL” is a tribute to the Olympic Games RIO 2016 and is installed in the Plaza Raul Cortez in front of Shopping Vila Olímpia.
In 2017 she created the first Video-Installation “CONJUGANDO UM FUTURO PRÓXIMO” that was presented at the Assembleia Legislativa of São Paulo.
EDUCATION:
MUBE – “Three-Dimensional Representation Course”
by the sculptor Luis Bayon Torres
São Paulo/SP
2013 – 2014.
MAM – “Art Criticism Course”
by Magnolia Costa
São Paulo/SP
2013.
“Modeling Techniques and Sculpture Course”
at Angela Bassan Art Studio
São Paulo/SP
2003 – 2004.
Fashion Design and Merchanding
Santa Monica College
Los Angeles/CA, EUA
1999 – 2001.
UCLA – Marketing and Advertising
Los Angeles/CA, EUA
1998.
FAAP – B.A. Bachelor of Arts
São Paulo/SP
1994 – 1997.
EXHIBITIONS:
“Ego, Oblivion & Connection”
Exhibition at Saphira & Ventura Gallery
New York
Jul/2018 – Aug/2018.
“Divino Feminino”
Exhibition at Tom Jobim Gallery – Consulate General of Brazil
Los Angeles/CA
Mar/2018 – Apr/2018.
“Spectrum Miami Art Show”
Exhibition at Spectrum Miami
Miami/FL
Dec/2017.
“Intervenções Contínuas”
Exhibition at Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de SP
São Paulo/SP
Sep/2017 – Oct/2017.
Exhibition at Galerie Artitude
Paris/France
Jun/2017 – Jul/2017.
“Toda Expressão”
Exhibition at Art Lab Gallery
São Paulo/SP
Mar/2017 – Apr/2017.
“SP Inspira Arte”
Exhibition at Art Lab Gallery
São Paulo/SP
Jan/2017 – Mar/2017.
“Múltiplas Perspectivas”
Exhibition at Art Lab Gallery
São Paulo/SP
Nov/2016.
“29° Salão de Arte da Associação Comercial de São Paulo”
Exhibition at Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de SP
São Paulo/SP
Oct/2016.
“Arte Brasileira na Contemporaneidade”
Exhibition at Art Lab Gallery
São Paulo/SP
Aug/2016.
“de Paris to New York”
Exhibition at Saphira & Ventura Gallery
New York
Jun/2016.
“Earth 2016”
Exhibition at ONU
New York
May/2016.
“Brazilian Art in the Contemporaneity”
Exhibition at Studio Dalmau
São Paulo/SP
Mar/2016.
“Chronos”
Exhibition at Casa Gallery
São Paulo/SP
Dec/2015 – Jan/2016.
“Pulsations, Torsions”
Exhibition at Casa Gallery
São Paulo/SP
Oct/2015.
“Great Contemporary Art Hall 2014”
Exhibition at Mayor Prestes Maia Library
São Paulo/SP
Oct/2014 – Dec/2014.
“Santa Barbara D’Oeste Art Salon”
Santa Barbara D´Oeste/SP
Jul/2014 – Aug/2014.
“I Sarau Paulistano”
São Paulo/SP
Nov/2004.
Exhibition at Judith Daprá Gallery
São Paulo/SP
Dec/2004.
“Silhuetas”
Exhibition at Espaço Uma
São Paulo/SP
May/2003.
AWARDS:
“Gold Medal” at “XX Arts Salon of Arceburgo”
Arceburgo/MG
Jun/2005.
“Honorable Mention” at “Female Universe Salon”
Cultural Center of the Navy – São Paulo/SP
Mar/2005.
PUBLICATIONS:
“Brazilian Art in the Contemporaneity”
Book release at Dalmau Studio
São Paulo/SP
Mar/2016.
“Pulsations, Torsions”
Book release at Casa Gallery
São Paulo/SP
Oct/2015.