Texts
What critics, historians and curators have written about her work.
- Domitille d’OrgevalA living geometryFar from the often austere image associated with an art rooted in geometry and mathematics, Ines Silva’s Plexiglas works stand out for their airy, luminous, and profoundly musical character. Reliefs, columns, folding screens, and suspended structures create a…Read →
- Susana BenkoThe modular and expansive geometry of Inés SilvaThis exhibition is titled «Jardinés colgantes», with an accent on the “e”, and the way it sounds when spoken aloud is entirely intentional. The wordplay fuses, on the one hand, the artist’s name, Inés, with “jardines”, the Spanish word for gardens; on the…Read →
- Inés SilvaThe meeting of the linesA solitary line calls for two more lines / The pair joins to share a point on its edges / Together they make an open figure / A fourth line completes the figureRead →
- Katherine ChacónInés Silva between the linesThat mathematics involves beauty is a subject that has been widely discussed since antiquity. The rational rigor of the calculated proportions contains in itself an austere and clean harmony that fascinates by its accuracy and the unveiling it makes of…Read →
- Susana BenkoThe echoes of color of Inés SilvaInés Silva is an artist and architect, a dual condition that is good to know to have a better appreciation of her artistic work. Indeed, she consolidates fundamentals of both disciplines allowing her to alter –or infringe– given structures to create new ones…Read →
- Perán ErminyInés Silva’s expansive geometryInés Silva is a young artist of a distinguished expositive trajectory in Venezuela and abroad. Since her beginnings, Inés placed her work within the currents of abstract geometric constructivism, in which she continues to work while exploring, in a permanent…Read →
- Saverio CecereFrom the idea to the construction of the ideaThe bonding between art and technology or art and science, has always been difficult to interpret.Read →
- Rosario PintoAbstract–geometric scansions of Inés Silva’s workThe geometric dimension of artistic creation responds, above all, to the primary need to elucidate the reasons on which the real is founded, reasons that reveal a logical–formal structure and that are therefore distinct from analogical representation, which…Read →
- Arturo MillánIntroductionInés Silva is a Venezuelan artist of international renown. She earned her Bachelor Degree in Architecture from Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), and is co-founder of the Madi Group in Venezuela. Inés devotes herself to the research and the composition…Read →
- Perán ErminyEurhythmyThe core problem Inés Silva sets herself in her works is that of achieving eurhythmy in them. The experience and knowledge acquired in her double profession (double rather than two, because they are joined in the aesthetic) as an architect and, above all, as…Read →
- Perán ErminyThe fine constructive rigor of Inés SilvaWith several notable public appearances in Venezuela and abroad to its credit—both before and after what, for many, constituted the revelation of its author’s talent, within the program of complementary activities organized in Caracas by the prestigious…Read →