DANIELA WICKI
Formed initially in classical painting during her teenage years, Daniela Wicki left the world of painting for a successful career as a lawyer. Her business ventures later led her to New York. The city’s energy and its Museum of Modern Art developed Daniela’s individual abstract sensibility and triggered a powerful creative response influencing her decision to go back to painting full time.
In 1995 she moved back to Peru where she studied and worked along major contemporaryPeruvian artists. In 1997 she moved to Miami, USA, where she continues her creative work immersed full time as a multimedia artist. During her career, she has hada number of successful local and international exhibits with the acclaim of critics, a strong presence in prominent collections and wide recognition of her force as an artist.
I am thoroughly inspired and moved by the actions the development of a painting continuously requires. I like the process and seek out the experience of coming across something: discovery, chance, adventure, technology, new materials. Abstract painting has always had a cathartic effect through which I channel my innermost energy.
For me, art is an aesthetic, ethical and ultimately spiritual force: a challenge made in the experience of finding in each and every creation a self-realization a self-portrait of my own energy, a landscape of forces, life in motion rather than still-life. I use my art to its fullest and highest development for the motivation, uplifting and inspiration of my fellow beings.
Through a thorough and methodic research, I learned about the latest cutting-edge technology, fabrics and materials being used in several industries like the automotive airflow dynamics, auto reflecting painting, fashion design fabrics, Artificial Intelligence. These learnings empower me to find the right formula to take the viewer through a meditative experience of the evident or the artwork and to allow them to discover the unknown side of the artwork.
In the Waves of Wind series, the viewer perceives a new emotion where appreciated in the absence of light, and in the Dynamic Reflection series, the artwork is visually altered depending on the viewer’s spatial relation to the artwork. Although in the end, the viewer becomes the director of its own imagination, the viewer has to think of himself as a traveler open to an experience.